Posted on 10/10/2019 4:41:04 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) These impeachment polls are very mysterious and confusing. Until you look at the details, that is. – The increasingly-trending-left Fox News came out with a “bombshell” new poll on impeachment Wednesday which Bret Baier solemnly told us shows that 51% of those polled favor both impeachment and removal from office. Baier further said that is an increase of 9% over an earlier poll taken before any of this nonsense about Ukraine broke. Which basically means that every leftist nitwit in the country has always wanted him impeached and removed, which should surprise no one.
This seems pretty strange since the President’s public approval rating in this poll and basically every other poll is essentially the same as it was in August. So, I decided to go take a look into the bowels of the results and guess what I discovered? Fully 48% of this poll’s sample identify as Democrats. This despite the fact that recent polling by Gallup and other organizations show that less than 30% of the U.S. population now self-identifies that way. 40% were Republicans, despite recent polling by Gallup and others showing that less than 30 of the actual population self-identifies that way. That leaves just 12% of this sample taken from the vast middle of the country that identifies with neither party.
This poll is trash. Garbage. A fake poll taken simply to create a fake news story for Bret Baier to parrot. Fox News is almost all the way achieving its goal of becoming CNN.
Ok, so, let’s go on to the poll from The Wall Street Journal/NBC released on Tuesday. This poll claims to find that 43% of the public favor “supporting [Trump’s] removal based on what they know today,” according to the linked NBC article. Yet, when you go take a look at the details of the findings, here is what you actually discover: When asked whether there is “enough evidence to impeach Donald Trump and remove him from office now,” just 24% in the poll’s sample say “yes.”
TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT.
Another 31% are in favor of holding “an impeachment inquiry to determine of there is enough evidence” to remove the President from office, because Americans just love their investigations. Fine.
But look at how absurdly NBC has misrepresented this poll’s actual findings to the public, simply to create a “news” story that might attract viewers and clicks to its website. It’s a disgrace.
One big difference in this poll as compared to the Fox poll is that it has a more reasonable partisan breakdown of 30% Democrat and 25% Republican, with the rest of the sample basically independents.
These are just two of the most recent of dozens of polls taken on the impeachment and removal questions, and when you look closely at the entire group of them, what you find is that this Democrat/Media coordinated anti-Trump frenzy over the innocuous Ukraine phone call as moved public opinion towards removal from office by maybe 2 or 3 percentage points.
Meanwhile, the President’s public approval rating as measured by the RealClearPolitics average of polls sits at 43.6% approval, slightly above his average for all of 2019.
This is not remotely what the Democrats and their media toadies were hoping to achieve here. Not at all.
They’re gonna need a bigger hoax.
That is all.
Good points. For me, I’m streaming with ATT Now (was DirecTvNow) so I can select OANN as easily as Fox. So foe streamers it is the best for now for me.
Makes all the sense to NOT depend on OAN and abandon Fox.
Everyone needs to note that Fox News had more anti-Trumpers before than now.
Many who are more intelligent have come around. Such as Katie Pavlich for example. Many others pretend to be neutral but do not lose any opportunity to jump on any negative news about Trump.
The swamp is deep and wide. Trump will need 4 terms to drain it completely. But I am satisfied Trump is making progress. Who besides Trump has the 2 big ones to expose Biden the corrupt?
Leni
FOX Business is FAR BETTER than FOX I have switched over to Fox Business their evening lineup is quite good, I had Verizon which carried OANN loved the channel however Verizon raised the rates to $289.00 a month RIDICULOUS when I changed over to Spectrum they did not carry OANN!!! I write to Spectrum on a regular basis asking for OANN but so far no go!!!
Agree for sure FBN is better (more conservative) than FN. But I do enjoy watching The Five, Hannity, and Laura. And those programs all air in the evening. During the day, FBN is mostly business news.
Is it my imagination, or has Stirewalt put on a buck fifty in the last year alone?
Amen!
Yes. Kristin Fisher was inside the Target Center with a camera crew. Matt Finn was outside the TC with a cameraman, reporting on all the Antifa FASCISTS terrorizing the police, police horses and Trump fans who were trying to leave the venue.
FNC did run Trump's fabulous rally earlier tonight, but I watched most of it on C-SPAN.
I have repeated over and over again that unless viewers can receive a conservative-oriented channel in their regular paid cable packages like they do Fox, CNN, PMSNBC, etal...with no separate charge, no having to view it on their computers, no separate contracts and billing, no having to go into another room....they're not going to use OAN. OAN will never expand much over what it is now....plus most people don't care to fiddle around to subscribe to something they know little to nothing about.
Totally agree, Leni. No OAN nor NewsMaxTV on my cable system. And none of our conservative friends have ever heard of those two channels.
Words of wisdom there (post 59).
A channel to be a counterbalance CNN would warm my cockles. There is a possible downside: 50% of the country would never hear the others’ arguments, and many would only watch their preferred hard left or right — sheeple! and lose some ability to question all news. That hard left or right channel could even eventually manipulate to promote riots if not divorces.
“Fair and Balanced” was a good motto, back in its’ day. It’s only a motto - like “all the news that’s fit to print” (yuck) but,, it does present some opportunity for know-nothings to check out FOX. And, it’s the best we have for maga coverage today. I say help it survive, write emails to knock the obvious crap and praise what we appreciate.
Leni
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