Reply #10: The low poll numbers make the President's party more inclined to vote conviction. [View All]

[Hart2008]

They want to save their own skins first.
Reagan had the Iran-Contra scandal, but his approval remained high. So there was no talk of impeaching Reagan. (He was probably ignorant of the details, but his V.P. had to have been running it.)
Truman and Carter had low approval ratings, but they didn't have any major scandals to merit considering impeachment.
Combine a major scandal with low approval ratings, and impeachment becomes likely. (See Richard M. Nixon.)

End of the term or not, soldiers are dying in an unpopular war. Impeaching the President and Vice President, Cheney first without a replacement, is the sure way to end the war.