Poll: Americans split 42%-42% on impeaching Trump

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today




Susan Page and Emma Kinery, USA TODAY Published 5:00 a.m. ET July 24, 2017 | Updated 9:02 a.m. ET July 24, 2017

WASHINGTON — Just six months after his inauguration, Americans already are split down the middle, 42%-42%, over whether President Trump should be removed from office, a new USA TODAY/iMediaEthics Poll finds.

While no serious effort is now underway in Congress to impeach Trump, the results underscore how quickly political passions have become inflamed both for and against the outsider candidate who won last year's campaign in a surprise. A third of those surveyed say they would be upset if Trump is impeached; an equal third say they would be upset if he's not.

Those findings, designed to measure the intensity of opinion, also show a perfect divide, 34%-34%.

"I don't really trust him — all the things he's done while he's in office, all of the lies, the investigation that goes on with him, the things he says to his staff," Vera Peete, 47, of Antioch, Calif., said in a follow-up phone interview. The caregiver from suburban San Francisco, an independent who voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, was among those called in the survey.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/24/impeach-donald-trump-poll-americans-split-remove-president/501871001/

[Runningdawg]

1. When he takes away his supporters health care

that number will swing in the right direction.

[KPN]

2. Is this good or is it bad?

With the Rs holding all the cards, it doesn't feel promising. Would the Rs in Congress cave and support impeachment if polls showed 65-70% support impeachment? I'm not encouraged.

[Bradical79]

3. It's been 6 months

and the polls are worse for Trump on impeachment than they were for Nixon at the start of Watergate.

[KPN]

5. Yes that's true ... and a positive.

I just don't have faith in these Republicans to do the right thing. They play to a very narrow base, a small minority enabled by gerrymanders and voter suppression. Look at the national polls on health care alone. They are having zero effect on these particular Republicans. The democratic process have been hi-jacked by oligarchs and is not working in the way that a healthy democratic process should -- our "democracy's" dynamics are way out of whack.

Hard for me to feel very positive about current polls in this light -- at least over the short term.

[still_one]

4. Impeachment ISN'T the question to ask. The question to ask is do you believe trump has been

involved in illegal activities?

Impeachment is a political process to remove someone from office, and I suspect that a good number of the populace may have varied views on exactly what impeachment means.

That is why going right to the heart of the matter, and simply asking if they believe trump is or has been involved in illegal activities is a better question

[Texin]

6. Look at the math.

"Just six months after his inauguration, Americans already are split down the middle, 42%-42%, over whether President Trump should be removed from office"

That leaves the average 36% of remaining voters not accounted for who comprise that stubborn 30-some-odd percent of voters who hold steadfast to tRump come hell or high water. (Which is not to say that this 36% are all on the same page with the orange shitgibbon, just that when polls are taken, about that number say they're his fan base).

At any rate, if there is such an even split about this, doesn't that start to put pressure on the rethugs to do something about this? Start putting more pressure tRump and, perhaps, quietly informing him that if the idiot fires Mueller, after firsting having fired Sessions and bringing about a potential constitutional crisis, he will be looking at a full bore impeachment process. At some point, this has got to have political blowback to them if they allow this crap to continue.