{"id":11360,"date":"2007-07-06T14:02:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11360.html"},"modified":"2007-07-06T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:02:51","slug":"for-a-fringe-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/for-a-fringe-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"For a fringe idea…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Independent national pollsters rarely ever ask Americans for their opinions about impeachment. In fact, when Washington Post polling director Richard Morin started receiving questions about it from readers, he got a little snippy about it<\/a>, and refused to take the questions seriously.<\/p>\n

It’s hardly a mystery — the notion of impeaching Bush and\/or Cheney is still considered a “fringe” idea that “serious” people are supposed to reject out of hand. And yet, for a radical idea, a surprising number of Americans seem to think impeachment is a good idea. From a new poll<\/a> conducted by American Research Group, a non-partisan outfit:<\/p>\n

* Do you favor or oppose the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush?<\/i><\/p>\n

Among all U.S. adults, 45% support the House initiating impeachment proceedings against Bush. Among all U.S. voters, impeachment enjoys 46% support, a plurality. In all, 69% of Dems, 50% of independents, and 13% of Republicans say they favor the start of an impeachment process.<\/p>\n

* Do you favor or oppose the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney?<\/i><\/p>\n

Among all U.S. adults, a 54% majority support the House initiating impeachment proceedings against Cheney. Among all U.S. voters, impeachment enjoys 50% support. In all, 76% of Dems, 51% of independents, and 17% of Republicans say they favor the start of an impeachment process.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to compare these numbers against other recent polls — news outlets are generally afraid of even asking the “I” question — but once an idea is embraced by nearly half the country, I think it’s probably safe to stop calling it “fringe.”
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\nI’d only add that the other recent impeachment poll was published two months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our InsiderAdvantage\/Majority Opinion poll asked this: “Would you favor or oppose the impeachment by Congress of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney?”<\/p>\n

Favor: 39%
\nOppose: 55 %
\nUndecided\/Don’t Know: 6%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just throwing these numbers out there….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Independent national pollsters rarely ever ask Americans for their opinions about impeachment. In fact, when Washington Post polling director Richard Morin started receiving questions about it from readers, he got a little snippy about it, and refused to take the questions seriously. It’s hardly a mystery — the notion of impeaching Bush and\/or Cheney is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}