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September 26, 2019
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll released Thursday afternoon shows that 43 percent of voters believe Congress should start the impeachment process against President Trump, up 7 percentage points from a poll conducted last Friday through Sunday. It was the latest poll showing an uptick in support for impeachment since Trump's Ukraine scandal broke and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she was opening a formal impeachment inquiry ...
https://theweek.com/speedreads/868192/new-politicomorning-consult-poll-finds-voter-support-impeachment-increasing
SunSeeker
(51,658 posts)struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)09/27/19 08:00 AMUPDATED 09/27/19 10:53 AM
By Steve Benen
... for months, no national poll showed proponents of presidential impeachment outnumbering opponents. Yesterday, that changed.
The poll was conducted Wednesday night with live phone interviewers. That was one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry, but before a whistleblower complaint about the presidents call with the Ukrainian leader was released to the public.
... in April, the same NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll asked about Trumps impeachment and found that opponents easily outnumbered supporters, 53% to 39% ...
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-polls-show-public-attitudes-trump-impeachment-changing
oasis
(49,400 posts)struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)SEP. 27, 2019, AT 6:00 AM
By Dhrumil Mehta
... according to the initial polls at least, public opinion doesnt seem to have shifted dramatically from where it was following both the release of special counsel Robert Muellers report on April 18 and Muellers testimony before Congress on July 24. The majority of Americans still do not favor impeachment ... There are several reasons, however, to believe that this picture is incomplete and could change.
... although support for impeaching the president is shy of a majority, polling suggests that a majority of Americans do disapprove of Trumps actions. A YouGov/Economist poll released Wednesday found that 52 percent of Americans said it is inappropriate for the president to request a foreign government open an investigation into a potential political opponent ... And in that same poll, 62 percent of Americans said that it is inappropriate for the president to threaten withholding foreign aid to a country if it refuses to take an action which personally benefits the President ...
... A separate YouGov poll conducted Tuesday found that a majority of Americans may either strongly or somewhat support impeachment if Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine in order to incentivize the countrys officials to investigate his political rival ...
... According to a Marist poll conducted Wednesday, 32 percent of Americans said they werent closely following news about the impeachment inquiry. And according to the YouGov/HuffPost poll, when asked if they found the allegation that Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Bidens son credible, 42 percent of respondents said that they werent sure or hadnt heard enough to say ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-first-few-post-ukraine-polls-say-about-impeachment/