GRAPHIC: polls show support to impeach Bush rivals Nixon day before resigned SEND TO PELOSI & CO.

[yurbud]

Send this to Conyers, Pelosi, & your Congress coward

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http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/11/animation-is-support-for-impeaching.html">Animation

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/10/poll-numbers-on-impeaching-bush-like.html">Supporting docs

More on impeachment polls at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling">AfterDowningStreet.org.

I'll update the graphics with a newer poll on impeaching Bush & Cheney later today.

[Junkdrawer]

1. Proud to be the first rec...

Excellent point...

[helderheid]

2. a happy rec 2

[rateyes]

3. Glad to be 3.

[seemslikeadream]

4. Tell her to recuse herself

She is complicit and has no constitutional authority in this case

[yurbud]

5. at first glance, that looked like ''rescue'' which would also work.

[whistle]

6. Done....k&r

[yurbud]

7. that's the fastest five votes I've ever gotten.

[pleah]

8. K&R I don't think Americans are as stupid as many others seem to think.

[bdamomma]

17. well apparently our elected officials think some of us are.

we should make it known to them that we are not.

[Richardo]

9. A couple of observations: The Bush graph is dated 2005...

Also the bar is progressively lowered: compare 'remove from office' for Nixon; 'be impeached' for Clinton; and 'Congress should consider impeachment' for Bush. The last is a much lower bar than the first, and therefore easier to support.

It would be interesting to see how public sentiment has changed from three years ago, with the greater knowledge of administration malfeasance, coupled with it being an election year and Bush's imminent departure.

Also, the question should be the same 'full-monty' as Nixon's: "Should he be removed from office?".

[yurbud]

10. yep. The Bush v. Clinton comparison was done by the Wall Street Journal. I added Nixon

and with pollsters, it's hard to find apples to apples comparisons since biases or the state of the debate shapes the questions they ask.

[papapi]

11. Up To The Minute Polling Results From USA Today - You can vote too.....

Vote To Impeach

[nashville_brook]

12. proud to be the 21st rec -- would have rec'd sooner, but I was too busy looking at cute animal vids

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload

don't get started, you may never stop.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

13. kicked and recccccccccccccccccc'd

[yurbud]

14. great MLK graphic!

[helderheid]

15. I think so too!

[krkaufman]

16. It's close, but there's still a significant difference between Bush's numbers and Nixon's. n/t

[harris8]

18. That poll is from 2005 - should be a lot higher now. NT

[Senator]

19. Key Fact -- Percent Of Dems Responding "No"

This is a number that has ranged from 20-50 percent. These are people who are presumedly "in agreement" with the "DC leadership's" ongoing campaign to keep impeachment "off the table."

Should DC-Dems choose to stop being the regime's firewall against accountability, this number would change dramatically. The same is true, albeit to a lesser extent, for independents.

It's not unreasonable to expect 70+% support for an impeachment ACTION on a specific undisputed charge like torture, illegal spying, or terrorizing the nation with lies about "Mushroom Clouds!"

Moreover, there is NO evidence that any "backlash" would occur. That claim is pure beltway blather.

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[onenote]

20. Those are very different questions

The Nixon question asked whether he should be removed from office. The Clinton question ask whether Clinton should be impeached if he lied about his sexual relationship with Lewinsky (notably, it doesn't say, for example, should Clinton be impeached if he lied under oath about his relatinship with Lewinsky). And the Bush example only asks whether, if Bush lied (again, not specifying the circumstances) about the reasons for the war, should congress "consider" impeachment. Any direct comparison of the results of the polls is therefore of limited utility.

For the record, my answer to those questions, would be as follows:

Nixon question: yes
Clinton question: no
Bush question: yes (but with the caveat that "consider" is a very vague and broad term)