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Article is spot-on.

Impeachmentmania is having the effect of driving scores of people away from the lamestream media.

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!

“Impeachmentmania is having the effect of driving scores of people away from the lamestream media.”

Let’s hope so.

The already insanely anti-Trump bias in the MSM actually kicked up a notch over the weekend, IMHO.