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Two-Thirds Of Republicans Think Impeaching Obama Would Be Justifiedby Emily Swanson at the Huffington Post
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Sarah Palin raised eyebrows last week when she called on Congress to impeach President Barack Obama, but a new HuffPost/YouGov poll shows that the former Alaska governor is not alone. A third of Americans, and two-thirds of Republicans, think Obama should be impeached.
Among all Americans, those saying Congress would not be justified in beginning impeachment proceedings against Obama outnumber those who think it would be justified, 44 percent to 35 percent, while 21 percent said they weren't sure.
The question drew a huge partisan divide. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said beginning the impeachment process would be justified, while only 8 percent of Democrats said the same. Independents were divided, 37 percent to 37 percent, while 26 percent said they weren't sure. Overall, 26 percent of non-Republicans said impeachment would be justified.
Impeachment was described in the poll as "the first step in the constitutional process for removing a president from office, in which possible crimes are investigated and charges are made." A HuffPost/YouGov poll experiment conducted last year found that support for Obama's impeachment varied depending on question wording, but that at least half of Republicans said they would support his impeachment no matter how the question was worded.
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applegrove
(121,675 posts)proceedings. Or talk thereof.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)If you just listen to right wing talk radio and Faux, any chance you have of understanding anything is gone.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)applegrove
(121,675 posts)psychopaths have managed to turn most of their base into children.
dogman
(6,073 posts)It would be each making a speech attacking Obama to use as a free campaign tool
moondust
(20,308 posts)The Poop Palace.
ananda
(29,952 posts)... an impeachment of Bush really would have been justified.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)What can I say? I'm easily entertained.
Skittles
(157,038 posts)you'd call them racist
caraher
(6,298 posts)Perhaps more to the point, did anyone even bother asking this kind of question in polls?
Edited to add... I did find some numbers:
May 2007: 39 percent support for impeachment of Bush and Cheney
2006: 52% backing for impeachment "if (Bush) wiretapped U.S. citizens without court approval"
Hekate
(93,581 posts)... the total US population is represented by these jackasses?