The following is an excerpt from my news analysis at The Hill.
Ever since his inauguration, President Trump’s political opponents have been pushing to impeach him. They just hadn’t found the right excuse. In other words, they knew where they wanted to end up but they just hadn’t found the right vehicle to drive them down the road.
With the fuss over Ukraine, they may have found their vehicle, according to new polls.
Or have they?
The latest CBS News poll headlined the findings that “Majority of Americans favor an impeachment inquiry into President Trump,” 55 percent to 45 percent.
But what if there’s more than meets the eye? Like many polls, there is plenty of fodder within the CBS News poll results to support either side. The trick is who does the reporting and which points they select to highlight.
What if it turns out there are many other headlines — and statistics — that could have been chosen from the same poll, ones that give an entirely different take on the situation?
Here’s one of them: “Majority of Americans in Democrat-heavy poll favor an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.”
Wouldn’t most Americans looking for unbiased information want the context that the poll interviewed more Democrats than Republicans?
A check of the poll data shows it interviewed 124 more Democrats than Republicans. That’s a statistically significant difference — 6 percentage points more Democrats than Republicans. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that Democrats and Republicans generally respond along party lines, a sample that looked at 6 percentage points more Republicans instead of Democrats would blow the “headline” that “a majority of Americans” favors the impeachment inquiry. It would, theoretically, change the pro-impeachment inquiry majority to a minority: 49 percent favoring the impeachment inquiry, and 51 percent opposing. (Continued...)
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It would be a nice change to see congress actually do their jobs.....such as working on legislation for the good of their constituents and the country. Instead, they are throwing out smoke and mirrors to distract us from anything else. Its very sad and tiring to watch these congress people try to find something......anything to impeach The President. Big waste of time and energy. They could have accomplished quite a bit over the last few years if they put the same time and energy into their jobs!! Perhaps they should get paid for what they actually get done in congress instead of a salary
No one polled me. That’s probably because I have caller ID and only pick up phone calls from numbers I recognize. If I were polled, I’d tell them they should impeach proven liars like Adam Schiff of “parody” fame. How does a paid employee of we the people have time for “parody?” The future of our country is in the hands of people who want to fundamentally change it into a new world order—getting rid of history, the constitution, fundamental freedoms, religion—by brainwashing our children, polluting entertainment with immorality by normalizing lewd behavior, destroying our culture, eliminating our borders.
from the article: "We in the media promised to self-correct after making so many mistakes covering the 2016 campaign. But it’s starting to look like we’re traveling the same path as we head toward 2020. "
That right there.
Miss. Attkisson, you keep pointing out things like this, and people might start thinking for themselves, questioning the narrative that is being presented.
Good for you.
THEM (DENCO-RATES ) (JACKASSES) WILL GO DOWN IN THE HISTORY BOOKS AS THE WORSE LOOSERS OF ALL TIME (2016 )
I heard a Dem that can be respected say today that she feels her party has "cried wolf" too many times. Schiff should be thrown out of Congress! Lying about the Pres. in Congress should carry punishment, for sure!
B-B-B-But I don't understand! Nancy Pelosi says that she has been praying for President Trump. Why aren't things working out?
One of my concerns is when the illibral progressives lose in 2020, what next stupid step will they take. They have run out of most all the unlawful steps. But maybe somewill step up and put them all on trial.
There are those who are working overtime in order to reverse our progress. This is nothing new... Throughout history this has been happening.