Posted on 12/15/2005 9:56:32 AM PST by RWR8189
December 15, 2005--Thirty-two percent (32%) of Americans believe that President George W. Bush should be impeached and removed from office. Fifty-eight percent (58%) take the opposite view.
However, just 30% of Americans would be more likely to vote for a Congressional candidate who promised to work for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Fifty-two percent (52%) would be less likely to vote for such a candidate.
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The Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 adults was commissioned by After Downing Street, a coalition working "to pressure both Congress and the media to investigate whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war."
The number who support impeachment is very similar to the 33% who believe it is impossible for the United States mission in Iraq to succeed.
Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans believe Vice President Cheney should be impeached and removed from office.
The impeachment of President Bush is favored by a plurality (49%) of Democrats. However, it is opposed by 84% of Republicans and 55% of those not affiliated with either major political party.
Democrats, by a 47% to 28% margin, say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports impeachment. Eighty percent (80%) of Republicans are less likely to do so.
Unaffiliateds, by a 46% to 29% margin, are less likely to vote for a candidate promising to work for impeachment.
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Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the 2004 Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome.
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Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.
Thanks for the ping, txflake. #82
I was driving into Austin YESTERDAYand saw a "Dennis Kucinich for president" bumper sticker on highway 183.
Note to the left:
Your guys lost.
32% of the country are moonbats, up from 10% a few years ago.
Half of the Dems are now complete Moonbats - that's my main take away. Let me rephrase that, half of the "Democrats" are complete radical Communist revolutionaries.
You pose a question; you already know the answer.
The liberal left is implicitly promoting impeachment on trumped-up charges. The liberal media is explicitly voicing the idea, in the hopes of turning a dim, mean-spirited perception into an angry, frothing reality.
Evidently, about one-third of this country is composed of alienated, disaffected and inconsolable bigots.
The "loyal opposition" is anything but...
This only proves you can get the results you want depending on the questions and who hired you. These guys who hired Rasmussen want the President impeached. And even though at least 32% of the electorate is the hateful left wing in America, it does not an impeachment make.
What it does make is a sad commentary of the shallow minds of the American electorate who only think of today and not the future.
I would hope that Rasmussen is polled again if say a dirty nuke kills ten times as many as 911...Who will the American people blame, President? Congress? Themselves?
I doubt it is 16% but there are some "conservatives" who want the President impeached. Some even plan to campaign for Democrats in order to help them win the House. Just watch FR and you'll see them crawl out of the woodwork on a regular basis and no, they are not people who just signed up to troll the forum.
This divided nation chat I guess has some real substance to it. Amazing.
Yeah, I believe this. I've always maintained the slight majority of the Dems base was a lost cause, while the slight minority was still reasonable. This is why you see the split on the war in their party. They still need the rational voters to win elections, but the irrational are now majority and get special attention from the leadership. If the rational abandon the party completely, Democrats would be dead politically outside of a few states like MASS.
However, there is another subgroup. Of the slight Majority that are irrational, you can cut that at least in half who are all talk and of no threat to anyone.
OR, the poll of Americans who feel Bill Clinton was a RAPIST....
They can stop Bush in the next presidential election.
Support for Clinton Impeachment never got all that much above that. I wonder what past totals would have been for Presidents who obviously had not committed Impeachable offenses.
Not after what he did today. Hell, I want to impeach him now myself!
This is pay back for Clinton obviously. I was ambivialent about the Clinton impeachment myself.
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