1.6 Impeachment and the Public
1. What is the most basic finding of the polls that have been released in the last week? There has been an uptick in the support for impeachment. 2. What did YouGov and the Economist find that most Americans feel about the president's actions? They found that 52 percent of Americans said that it is inappropriate for the president to request a foreign government open an investigation into a potenti al political opponent. 3. What did that same poll find about American attitudes toward the president if he withheld funding to the Ukraine? In that same poll, 62 percent of Americans said that it is inappropriate for the president to threaten withholding foreign aid to a country if it refuses to "take an action which personally benefits the President." 4. What change in attitudes did the Quinnipiac poll find? In the Quinnipiac poll, 54 percent of Americans thought Trump had “attempted to derail or obstruct the investigation into the Russian interferenc...