What do the impeachment polls tell us that the media will not?

If you follow the recent polls – and God knows why you would – they indicate that a slim majority – around 52 percent or so – favor impeaching President Trump.  Some polls even indicate that a majority of the American public favor removing him from office.

That gives Democrats a rationale for moving ahead with their three-and-a-half-year campaign to undo the 2016 election.  It is now 99.9 percent certain that they will impeach the President.  They are claiming popular support.

Since at least one or two Republicans in the House and Utah Senator Mitt Romney in the Senate have expressed support for the impeachment inquiry, Democrats also claim bipartisan support.  A few outliers are not, however, an indication of bipartisan support.

But then there are those other polls – the ones that get much less notice by the east coast left-wing news media.  Those are the state-based polls in such battleground states as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.  In those key states, most folks OPPOSE impeachment.  In those critical swing congressional districts in which a Democrat won in a district previously carried by Trump, the voters are very much OPPOSED to impeachment.  The numbers generally run in the 53 to 40 range against — with the remainder undecided.

These numbers should scare the hell out of Democrats presidential candidates and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  It could mean the re-election of Trump and the re-taking of the House by the GOP if they proceed with impeachment – and they have little choice but to impeach.  If they did not vote to impeach, their radical base would go nuts and Trump would rightfully declare all their talk of criminal and impeachable behavior to be political nonsense.

The apparent disparity in the polling numbers between the national figures and the state-based figures reflects the same dynamic that gave Trump the majority in the Electoral College even as Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. It could happen again based on the current polling numbers.

It is the weight of the large populations in blue states.  Such states a California, New York and Illinois produce HUGE numbers for the Democrats – ergo votes for impeachment.  But no matter how lopsided the numbers, the votes in the Electoral College would favor Trump.  You can win California with 90 percent of the vote, but if you lose Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, you are losing the election.

In 2016, California alone gave Clinton the votes needed to gain a majority of the popular vote.  But it was Trump’s narrow victories in several of the key battleground states that gave him the Electoral College by a significant amount – and with it, the presidency.

If you translate the current polling numbers to votes in the 2020 General Election – and assume that Trump can carry states and congressional districts in which there is opposition to impeachment, much less removal – it is very possible that 2020 could be a repeat of 2016.  The Democrat candidate might again win the popular vote – based on lopsided majorities in California and New York — and still, lose the Electoral College votes to Trump.

An additional danger for Pelosi is that many of those Trump congressional districts that flipped in 2018 will flop in 2020 – giving back the majority in the House to the GOP and sending Pelosi into retirement.

Pelosi & Company fully understand that it is extremely unlikely that the Senate will remove Trump from office. They are banking on inflicting enough damage on Trump and the Republican brand to enable them to win both the White House and the Senate.  It is a high-risk strategy with no guarantee that it will not backfire.  But Democrats are already well down the slippery slope of impeachment.  Whether it is a good strategy for Democrats or a potential disaster, only time will tell.

So, there ‘tis.

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22 Thoughts to “What do the impeachment polls tell us that the media will not?”

  1. Cliff

    You will find that most (if not all) polls are skewed to reflect what the rabid COMMUNISTS that want to take over this country WANT you to see. Most of these ‘polls” are conducted in colleges and universities where the “students” are already indoctrinated, and brainwashed to think like obedient little COMMUNISTS.

  2. Dems are full of crap w/ this never-ending witch hunt; motives are transparent & several polls indicate support FOR Trump & run against impeachment.
    78% Say No to Impeachment in Latest Newsmax poll
    https://www.newsmax.com/Surveys/Results/id/437/?oRef=google

  3. Craig Michael Vandertie

    Tragically due to the psychotic indoctrination rather than curricular education that has infected many education systems over the past 40 to 50 years many of those who are afflicted with and suffering from such an intense form of psychosis that there is no known cure for it and who reside on a warped plane of existence who should never have been allowed to vote in the first place probably do favor impeachment.

    Here in Green Bay, WI where the majority of Brown county voted for Trump I personally know 2 people who still believe Trump colluded with a foreign government to effect the results of the 2016 Presidential election to favor him, sorry! psychos but Trumps policies appealed to us genuinely cognizant patriots and our voting for him had nothing to do with any alleged action taken by a foreign government to rig the election in his favor.

  4. Thomas Harrell

    Check your poll I think they are much like those polls that predicted Hillary to win, remember 98% Clinton to 2% Trump to win. Yeah those polls! There are horse shit!

  5. Henry FitzGerald

    I f any real proof existed they would do it in public. The way they are doing it is ILLEGAL and shows they don’t follow the law.

    Most information (negative) is released by the Democrats and their news which they fully control.

    I don’t think the Courts will allow this to happen.

    I don’t agree with everything being done by both parties but I Trust the American people will figure it out by election time. Henry

  6. harrison burnel

    left wing states and their pollsters had hillary in a landslide. any media that depends upon the pollsters that are inaccurate and out right lie , are themselves stupid. we americans want to vote in or out our next president. stop msm lies. report what flyover america….the majority want. we want no bullshit we have gotten since trump was elected. dems went after trump 2 days after the election to impeach. that is just wrong……even if it was obama, clinton, carter, kennedy, nixon, fdr or lincolin

  7. Bob

    We all know how crooked the polls are. They can be manufactured to do what ever the one in control wants. Fox news proved that.

  8. David J

    I haven’t talked to a single Democrat who supports impeachment, the Democrat Party is killing itself with impeachment foolishness. Trump won the election. Running Hillary Clinton was a terrible choice and Biden, Warren,, Sanders, Harris etc., are going in the wrong direction, so the Democratic Party is getting weaker by the day.

  9. Robert B

    Impeachment, if not rejected by the Senate because there’s no “High Crime”, will result in Civil War 2. How else do you expect Patriots will react to this travesty of Justice? Start by arresting Demon-rat Congressional Democrat leadership and “the Squad” for sedition, for one. Then branch out to hit leftist judges who helped subvert our Constitution, then Antifa. If things go hot, those cowards will melt like a snowflake on a hot summer day.

  10. Bill M.

    Romney will soon get his…the next time he runs for public office.

    I regret the sorry day I voted for this loser in 2012.

  11. c m brown

    Who are these poll critters polling, no one has ever asked anyone I know about what they think. I beleive these pollsters are dreaming all this up

  12. FAKE NEWS A N D FAKE POLLS? . . . WHEN, and WHERE, does all the ENDLESS lying end? Hopefully in a PRISON cell! (are there ENOUGH of them?!?). This “SCHIFF Show” is getting interesting! even the MC might be in a prison cell for SEDITION. SWEEET! Better than a SITCOM, if it wasn’t so SAD. team Trump and his allies 2020 – KAGA (Keep America Great Again).

  13. Th only thing the polls tell me is they are incorrect.

  14. I am so sick and tired of the BS that the Democrats are tossing! It’s time that every honest, loyal and patriotic American takes a stand against all the lawlessness and corruption in our government. There is evidence that many Democrats and some Republicans are criminals and, I’m not talking about President Trump! What concerns me most is, the fact that these criminals are walking free and apparently unafraid of the consequences of their lawlessness and treason. Even after they rape our country, when they finally have gotten enough of our money to retire on, we add insult to injury by continuing to support them in their retirement!

  15. MARG, BLAKE

    TRUMP SHOULD NOT BE impeachment , NO NOT EVER.
    if ANYONE GETS IMPEACHED IT SHOULD BE PELOSI……..

    I SEE A CIVIL WAR COMING. IF THE BLACKS AND ALL PEOPLE SHOULD SEE THAT THEY WILL TAKE OVER MEDICAL AND JOBS AND INCOME WILL GO DOWN.

  16. And hear you have it folks, more fake news from the media.

  17. President Trump has worked harder than any President to make our lives better. I am amazed how he does it. Romney has been an embarrassment to our people who gave him a vote in 2012. NO IMPEACHMENT [email protected]

  18. Trump in 2020! MAGAZINE!!!

  19. Trump will be impeached but not removed. He will be soundly defeated in Nov 2020. Upon becoming a private citizen he will be charged under RICO acts and be stripped of all his ill gotten possessions.
    He might go to jail, but I would rather seeing him beg for money from rich “friends.”

  20. To Robert B

    First; don’t bet you life savings on it.
    Second, lots of people from the left have guns, and lots of us have had combat experience, unlike most of you scummy Trumpies.
    So, be careful what you wish for.

  21. George

    “We” cannot believe ANYTHING that’s “news” since ALL of it is biased, & backed by “BIG $$$$” that’s coming from Soros,Bloomberg, Arabella & a host of “Trump haters”. “WE” ARE “the silent majority” who do not wear “Trump gear”,”THINK” the way “WE” want to,& support this ELECTED President!. “WE” did NOT vote for Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Waters, Schiff & it’s TIME that “The House” gets rid of these SNAKES! Our THREE branches of Gov.’t are being hog-tied by ONE BRANCH! ALL branches are SUPPOSED to be equal, so WHAT happened here? Simple…..these bums have been in there TOO LONG & “THINK” that “they” know better than than LEGITIMATE voters! Same is TRUE for FBI, CIA, State, & the Pentagon! Schumer said “mess with Intel” & you’ll have “hell to pay”. Well, Trumps PAYING & WE NEED TO STAND WITH HIM!!

  22. Larry Horist again proves that he is the dumbest writer on this planet. He wants us to believe that impeachment is dangerous for the Democrats when it’s the Republicans who have to worry. Especially Donald Trump. Trump has run out of defenses. That’s why there are silly stories like this one.

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