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Schiffiasco: Opposition Rises To Impeachment Inquiry In Politico-Morning Consult Poll
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| 11/19/2019
| Ed Morrissey
Posted on 11/19/2019 7:38:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
House Democrats needed a big showing from their public impeachment hearings to rally public opinion and build a consensus for Donald Trumps removal. After the first few days of testimony under Adam Schiffs direction, they find themselves losing ground instead. In the latest Politico-Morning Consult poll, opposition to impeachment and removal has hit a recent high, and independents are bailing out on the project:
The survey, which has tracked support and opposition for the inquiry each week, support for the investigation inched down 2 points to 48 percent from 50 percent while opposition to the inquiry ticked up 3 points to 45 percent from 42 percent.
POLITICO and Morning Consult surveyed registered voters beginning after the second public hearing of the impeachment inquiry, and the poll results may indicate that support for the inquiry has reached its peak after steadily building over the past several months. The results were largely driven by independent voters, among whom support dropped by 7 points over the past week.
Voter opposition to the impeachment inquiry is at its highest point since Morning Consult and POLITICO began tracking the issue, said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consults vice president. A key driver for this shift appears to be independents. Today, 47 percent of independents oppose the impeachment inquiry, compared to 37 percent who said the same one week ago.
This matches up with the latest iteration of FiveThirtyEights aggregate tracking on impeachment polls as well. After a peak on October 14th of 50.3/43.8 in favor of impeachment, it has now declined to 47.9/45.4 tracking ever closer to a flat-out tie. The trend is going in the wrong direction at the very time that Schiff is finally laying out his public case for impeachment, which speaks volumes about the impact of his hearsay witnesses and lack of direct evidence for hysterical charges of bribery and extortion.
Its not the only metric showing a stall in Democrats momentum or worse. When asked about prioritization, the split for making impeachment a top priority is 46/45, not exactly a consensus pick. In comparison, voters are much more concerned about
- Reducing the federal budget deficit: 80/10
- Healthcare reform bill: 79/12
- Infrastructure stimulus: 73/13
- Immigration reform: 72/17
- Climate change: 62/29
- DACA statute: 60/30
- Legislation addressing economic inequality: 56/31
Only the border wall scores lower than impeachment in this poll, quite a feat for Adam Schiff this late in the game. Note too that almost all of those priorities are supposedly priorities for House Democrats as well. If they had spent 2019 working on the agenda that voters prioritize rather than on their three-year project to remove Donald Trump from office, they might not be worried about losing their majority they could be planning for a new Senate majority.
The media doesnt perform too well in this poll, either. By a 2:1 margin, Americans think that the impeachment inquiry is more important to the media than it is to them (60/30), and the same exact split applies to politicians (60/30). The condemnation of the media is rather partisan, with 78% of Republicans believing that its more important to the media than the voters, but 61% of independents agree and so do 44% of Democrats. The same rough split as overall shows up in every age demo, every income demo, and even comes close in every ethnic demo, although it dips to the low 50s among Hispanics and African-Americans. It even gets a plurality among those who disapprove of Trump, 48/42.
About the only good news from the poll is that only a plurality disapprove of Democrats handling of impeachment:
While a plurality continues to support the inquiry overall, they also remain stable in their opposition to Democrats handling of the inquiry, 46 percent to 42 percent.
Expect that to change as it becomes clear that Schiff doesnt have a case, and as bored voters tune out. And when that changes, Nancy Pelosi will regret not having worked on the real priorities of voters for the past year.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; california; fakepolls; impeachment; manufacturedconsent; morningconsult; politico; pollutico; scaredschiffless; schiff; schiffforbrains; tylersinclair; ukraine
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To: SeekAndFind
I’m tired of The Price Is Right being pre-empted, dammit!
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:40:18 AM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: SeekAndFind
Schiff looks like a Muppet.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:43:49 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SeekAndFind
This is a #SEINFELDIMPEACHMENT... everyone who is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome knows it... literally an impeachment about nothing...
To: SeekAndFind
Heard on Fox & Friends this morning the public is tuning out from the live coverage of the hearing.
5
posted on
11/19/2019 7:45:00 AM PST
by
bgill
To: SeekAndFind
Those eyes, Dear Lord, what foul thing lives in that vessel?!
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:45:14 AM PST
by
chris37
(Where's Hunter?)
To: SeekAndFind
Pelousy, Hoyer and the rest of the RAT leadership have some kind of impeachment withdrawal strategy ready to go. This thing has blown up in their faces!
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:46:19 AM PST
by
dowcaet
To: SeekAndFind
Difficult to believe the bug eyed Schiff photo on the left above was not photoshopped. His medications (allegedly) must give him confidence to speak in public when he looks like Charles Manson (as others have said here). Yes, he has no beard.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:46:30 AM PST
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
The good news is we won’t have to endure an impeachment trial in the Senate when Democrats abandon this farcical pursuit of windmills.
They will not have 218 votes to pass a single article.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:46:38 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: HamiltonJay
that should be “everyone who is NOT suffering from TDS knows it”
To: SeekAndFind
Nunes is tearing up their witnesses currently, just heard a few minutes in the truck on NPR which is going wall to wall with this.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:49:05 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Mariner
Dems are in a pickle ....
If you are in a deep blue district and refuse to vote to impeach, you will get primaried....
Vote to impeach anywhere else, and you will lose the general...
To: SeekAndFind
But, but, everyone in the media said there was “overwhelming evidence” to support #shampeachment.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:50:30 AM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
m tired of The Price Is Right being pre-empted, dammit! Most cable bundles still allow Your State Legislature At Work with gavel to gavel coverage.
Highway Through Hell is still on at night. Unless you think that's what the Schiff hearings are already.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:50:46 AM PST
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: dowcaet
Pelousy, Hoyer and the rest of the RAT leadership have some kind of impeachment withdrawal strategy ready to go. This thing has blown up in their faces!
....
Yes indeed! Rush was speculating on his program last week about this very thing! I believe this will happen sooner rather than later!
I hope the Rats choke on their impeachment!
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:51:07 AM PST
by
Artcore
(Trump 2020!)
To: Mariner
They will not have 218 votes to pass a single article.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wouldn’t bet on that.
My Congresscritter is CIA and will vote for it.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:51:24 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: SeekAndFind
Some 95% of all the personal woe in the world is self-induced. Adam Schiff is the poster child for that observation.
Adam Schiff should not shut up altogether. But he ought to take a deep breath and LISTEN to something other than the echo chamber he insists on locking himself up in.
Of course, willful ignorance is the most pernicious and intractable kind of ignorance.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:51:44 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
To: SeekAndFind
Schiff and the counsel for Vindman are blocking Vindman from telling who is the second person he spoke to, whom he says is in the intelligence community and had a need to know about the contents of the July 25th call, even though he admitted earlier that the White House had determined that the contents of the call were going to be only available to a limited set of people.
First, Vindmans not being able to reveal what agency this person worked for pretty much nails down that HE was the ultimate source for the leaker/whistleblower in the White House.
Secondly, Vindman reveals his own arrogance in making the decision about who can have access to the contents of the call, arrogating to himself the power to allow others not on the short list two other individuals the information which he overheard. He is a leaker.
Thirdly, Vindman is arrogantly assuming that he and his community have the authority to make foreign policy. Absurd.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:51:52 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Im tired of The Price Is Right being pre-empted, dammit! That was part of the strategy the Democrats used against Nixon, they knew over time, most people just wanted Nixon to resign just so they could watch their TV shows again.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:52:08 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: blueunicorn6
Schiff looks like a Muppet. It's been said that politics is like "show business for the ugly". I think these hearings support this.
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posted on
11/19/2019 7:52:25 AM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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