Posted on 09/27/2019 4:58:45 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Andrew Kohut, the founding director of Pew Research Center and its president from 2004 to 2012, was one of the nations leading pollsters. He died in 2015. ... Here is one of those articles, originally published on Aug. 8, 2014.
Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the nations highest office, making that decision in the face of almost certain impeachment by the House and plummeting public support, as a majority of Americans called for his removal from office. But it happened in stages.
Nixon had won reelection in 1972 by a landslide and began his second term with a lofty 68% Gallup Poll approval rating in January 1973. But the Watergate scandal which started with an effort to bug the Democratic National Committee office at the Watergate Hotel and subsequent efforts to cover it up quickly took a heavy toll on those ratings, especially when coupled with a ramp-up in public concerns about inflation. By April, a resounding 83% of the American public had heard or read about Watergate, as the president accepted the resignations of his top aides John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. And in turn, Nixons approval ratings fell to 48%.
(Excerpt) Read more at pewresearch.org ...
Nixon couldn’t get 50,000 new donors within 72 hours.
The lame stream media are dreaming of the good old days when they controlled the narrative. A pox on them all.
They look ok.
Of course they are. The polltakers insist on it. Pollsters == Big Media == Propaganda Arm of the Democrat Party.
“Watergate was every bit the crock of shit that weve got going on now. Republican pussies caved...like they seem to be doing now.”
Am I the only one on the planet who believes that the Congress should have been pinning medals on Nixon and his entire administration for stopping a known-communist from getting elected instead of impeaching Nixon?
“It doesnt matter. Its about public perception. The left controls the media.
Already the polls are showing a shift in favor of impeachment”
And Hildabeast is President, all the Polls said so.
Well I don’t think Trump has a taping system. I am not sure if Nixon would have been brought down without the infamous audio tapes. Audio and video are powerful.
The video of Biden is a good start. We need more tapes of their crimes.
The ratings for the MSM are in the toilet, who in the HELL is watching them ONLY die hard Dems!! Independents AND republicans are NOT watching them OR believe a word they say!! I guarantee you that the public is NOT changing their minds about impeaching Trump FAKE news, FAKE polls!!!!
Don’t forget that Hillary got fired fore lying and ethics form the Watergate investigation.
Bullsh!t! Site your proof!
And...?
We live in a social media era. Completely different
Correct analysis in all ways.
There wasnt talk radio and Tucker Carlson on Tv In 74. The mainstream media doesnt have a monopoly on the messaging this time, so it wont be nearly as easy to demoralize Trumps base as it was with Nixons
Bump
Thanks for the history lesson.
Now do Bill Clinton.
There was NOT ONE slightly conservative news outlet in the 70s it was ONLY the MSM!!! We are in much better shape now, we are able to get our message out now MSM is DEAD now nobody watches them anymore ONLY the hardcore Dems their ratings are in the toilet I NO LONGER feel they are even reaching enough viewers to make a difference any longer!!! The 2016 election is proof of that!!! We would NEVER have lost the 2018 mid terms if OUR SIDE had backed up Trump in any way,AND if Trump had been on the ticket!!! To be very honest with you OUR SIDE deserved to lose the house as bad as ALL of this has been we DESERVED to lose, we got rid of a lot of the RINOS and in 2020 Trump will get the house back hopefully with some actual conservatives to back Trump!!! I want the Dems SCREAMING and CRYING uncontrollably I want them on Valium for 4 years!!!
In terms of being informed, the public of 1974 were simpletons compared to the public of 2019.
1. That’s for an inquiry. 2. National poll, not a swing state poll. 3. Impeachment very unpopular in swing districts.
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