Posted on 10/07/2019 7:37:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you watch cable or network news, all you hear about is impeachment. To the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, it’s as if it already happened. Reps Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler speak as if it’s a foregone conclusion, and shed crocodile tears about being “heartbroken and prayerful” over the process.
The fact is, an impeachment inquiry has yet to begin. Opening such an inquiry would require a full House vote, making vulnerable representatives in districts President Trump won handily in 2016 go on record in favor of removing a duly elected president for the high crime of doing his job.
A formal impeachment inquiry also gives Republican representatives subpoena power, something the Democrats don’t want, as many inconvenient facts may emerge, such as Rep. Adam Schiff being a fact witness in the actual impeachment process. What did Schiff know and when did he know it about the Ukraine whistleblower?
CNN is giddy over impeachment, especially after two years of telling its handful of airport viewers that, “The walls are closing in on Trump” over the nothingburger Mueller investigation and report. Left with egg on their faces, they want nothing better than to see Trump impeached and removed from office, affirming their ability to create a presidency, as in Obama, and destroy a presidency, as in Trump.
CNN ran a headline: “Trump's impeachment polling is historically unprecedented” followed by a lead sentence, “The poll numbers are in on impeachment, and it's not good news for President Donald Trump.”
CNN claims, “Americans are more eager to impeach Trump now than they were at similar points in the impeachment sagas of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.” Are they really?
Polls are different now than 20 or 30 years ago, a time when they were used to reflect
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Article is spot-on.
Impeachmentmania is having the effect of driving scores of people away from the lamestream media.
The impeachment hype from the media and select Dems is insuring their defeat in the House in 2020 and will help Trump win a 2nd term - plain and simple, they cannot help themselves, they can’t resist overplaying their hate - it is refreshing to watch.
The Media is Giddy About It.......They are fascinated by little shiny things................
There is such fatigue with it all. Nobody in any of my circles at work, at home, or at leisure, discuss it at all. It’s just such a tired story/stories.
The Media is Giddy About It.......They are fascinated by little shiny things................
All they care about is viewership.
Trump wins, 4 more years of “ he’s illegitimate” and Dem kabuki theater...
They get viewership again.. In their eyes a win....
The polls are all over the place and are sometimes designed to SHAPE, not reflect, popular opinion.
CONSIDER:
1) Huffington Post surveyed 1000 U.S. citizens, not likely voters, September 30-October 1. This is relevant since only about half of eligible voters actually vote in elections. The poll reported that President Trump should be impeached by a 44 to 40 percent margin. Yet their survey population was 36 percent Democrat and only 24 percent Republican, a 12-point sampling difference, three times larger than the poll margin.
If you conduct such a poll in downtown Denver or Seattle, you would get a similar result, but that’s not a true survey of America.
2) The Economist/YouGov Poll from September 28-October 1 also surveyed U.S. citizens, not likely voters. Their survey sample was also weighted Democrat, skewing the results, with 53 percent Democrat and only 36 percent Republican, 17-point difference. Not surprisingly, the survey population thought the House should try to impeach Trump by a 44 to 37 percent margin, less than half the difference compared to party affiliation.
3) Monmouth University from September 23-29. The sample was better than the above two polls, favoring Democrats by only four points, 30 percent Democrat and 26 percent Republican. Such a sample produced a different result too. When asked if President Trump should be impeached and removed from office, 44 percent said yes compared with 52 percent saying no.
4) Rasmussen, the most accurate pollster in the 2016 election, surveys likely voters as opposed to eligible voters, a more meaningful sample. In their Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Trump is at 48 percent total approval as of October 4, compared to Obama at only 44 percent at the same point in his presidency. This is despite mostly favorable media coverage of Obama and virtually entirely negative coverage of Trump. And Obama won reelection easily in 2012.
NOW CONSIDER THIS:
In the same Monmouth University Poll cited above, President Trump had a 41 percent approval rating compared to only 21 percent for Congress!
Let’s hope so.
The already insanely anti-Trump bias in the MSM actually kicked up a notch over the weekend, IMHO.
To be perfectly honest about it, those in the Media are generally low IQ types that are very easily attracted to bright and shiny objects. Since critical thinking and deep analysis are not their bailiwick, they tend to glom on to the simplest of ideas and theories and then hold on to them for all they are worth.
Bless their hearts.
Because you can't impeach someone just because there are Democrat sympathizers on his staff who leak classified information about nothing. Just because you have TDS doesn't mean you have an impeachable offense.
I’m not so sure of the giddy part. I think the MSM have as much to hide as their fellow Deep State conspirators in Congress and the federal government. It’s self preservation for all of them in The Swamp!
I have to agree with this 100%. I have yet to hear any discussion about impeachment outside the entertainment news shows. I live and work in the Boston area and I have heard nothing. Not even on Facebook from the usuals. It has to be the “the boy who cried wolf” scenario. No one is interested.
It’s really working for CNN and MSNBC................
Trump's meme has bled into the nation's consciousness and that is bad news for the MSM and their democrap allies.
What, they are impeaching Hillary?
She won the election, right? ;-)
There is probably more hype on NCAA football, than impeachment. I think if the media graded it...they’d be shocked.
CNN claims, “Americans are more eager to impeach Trump now than they were at similar points in the impeachment sagas of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.”
Rat pols DO watch CNN. This is aimed at them. CNN desperately wants an actual Impeachment. Its all they live for at this point. So this is to encourage the Rats too pull the trigger.
CNN is giddy over impeachment,hoping the Hillary and deep state cover up will win out crow about to served.And yes you can eat in your cell.
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