{"id":1978,"date":"2005-11-04T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2007-12-05T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:13:21","slug":"new-poll-53-of-americans-support-bush-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"New Poll: 53% of Americans Support Bush Impeachment!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last June, 42% of Americans in a Zogby poll felt that Bush should be impeached if he lied about the War on Iraq while 50% opposed.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, in a new poll by Ipsos, a majority of 50% were in favor of impeachment, while just 44% were opposed.<\/p>\n

And today, the latest poll from Zogby asking the same question, says 53% support impeachment of Bush while just 42% oppose<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, even while the Mainstream Media were relentlessly discussing impeachment every day, wall-to-wall, about Bill Clinton back in September and August of 1998 (while hardly mentioning it today in relation to Bush) “only 36% supported hearings to consider impeachment, and only 26% supported actual impeachment and removal” according to a study of 16 major polls<\/a> which asked the question back then (versus the 3 major polls now, 2 of them which had to be funded by American citizens donating to AfterDowningStreet.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

ImpeachPAC.org<\/a>, a new organization from the AfterDowningStreet.org<\/a> folks (of which The BRAD BLOG<\/a> is an affiliate) have begun raising money for Congressional candidates who support impeachment of both Bush and Cheney. They have much more on all of the above<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/b> Two commenters have taken us to task for what they consider to be a misleading headline on this item, noting that the 53% who “support Bush Impeachment,” as the headline states were answering whether or not they would do so “if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq.”<\/p>\n

Though we did<\/i> make that point clear in the first sentence of the article, the commenters (one of them an habitual troll here at BRAD BLOG<\/a>, but we do not discriminate) still had a problem with the headline.<\/p>\n

When we posted this article, what we didn’t<\/i> delve into (mostly due to lack of time) was what the sponsors of the poll — who similarly headlined their article announcing the results<\/a> as “53% of Americans Support Impeachment,” by the way — also discussed how many Americans feel already<\/i> that “Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq.”<\/p>\n

From their article:<\/p>\n

Other polls show a majority of U.S. adults believe that Bush did in fact lie about the reasons for war. A June 23-26 ABC\/Washington Post poll<\/a> found 52% of Americans believe the Bush administration “deliberately misled the public before the war,” and 57% say the Bush administration “intentionally exaggerated its evidence that pre-war Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.” Support for the war has dropped significantly since June<\/a>, which suggests that the percentage of Americans who believe Bush lied about the war has increased.<\/div>\n

Thus, 53% of Americans support impeachment “if Bush did not tell the truth” and anywhere from 52% to 57% believe he did not tell the truth.<\/p>\n

Do the math. We stand by the original headline. (And still hope Bush gets a blowjob so impeachment proceedings may begin.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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