Worst impeachment poll ever

[struggle4progress]

By Aaron Blake
Oct. 25, 2019 at 11:46 a.m. EDT

Four months ago, President Trump responded to some poor internal polling numbers by, naturally, firing some of his pollsters. As more than a few people noted at the time, the purge risked giving the remaining pollsters ... incentive to juice their numbers in a more pro-Trump direction ...

Trump on Thursday promoted a new McLaughlin poll on impeachment ...

Look at the question:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “Impeaching President Trump is a waste of time and tax dollars and it will ultimately go nowhere, so the Democrats should focus on working with Republicans to solve our nation’s problems rather than focusing on trying to impeach President Trump.”

So the options are essentially: Do something that is costly and pointless, or work together to “solve our nation’s problems.” Who wouldn’t choose the latter? The question, of course, ignores that fact that Congress was gridlocked regardless of impeachment, so it’s kind of a false choice. And very few people are going to disagree with the idea that Congress should focus on curing the nation’s ills ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/25/trumps-pollster-releases-worst-impeachment-poll-ever/

[Wounded Bear]

1. "Should Dems be reasonable and do things the Republican way?"

Another way to paraphrase that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That was a push poll on steroids.

But Spanky's pollsters didn't want to be fired like the others, so they had to design a poll that was guaranteed to make him happy.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Going to be more just like this one.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. "Is Trump the Greatest President EVER or should we kill this puppy?"

Makes about as much sense.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. McLaughlin polls are notorious for this

Giving right-wing corporate politicians the results they want is probably very profitable.