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MadLinguist

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7. No sense at all. I think published polls should provide a link to the actual questions

Tue Oct 8, 2019, 10:15 AM

Oct 2019

It's probably asking too much to get the raw numbers too.
Still, considering how much weight (albeit transitory) an individual poll carries, it's absurd that the public has no chance to review the underlying data. I'd be inclined to discount *all* responses from people who said both impeachment is a necessary stand and impeachment is overreacting. That is, "yes" to [impeachment is a necessary stand], and "no" to [it’s NOT overreacting], though I doubt the survey questions were actually constructed like that. If they were constructed like that, I'd discount the whole survey as bad science.

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Latest impeachment poll shows gop response is going over like a lead balloon. [View all] catbyte Oct 2019 OP

That's a big number. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2019 #1

That is huge TEB Oct 2019 #2

say what? Kashkakat v.2.0 Oct 2019 #3

I suspect that there is a double negative introduced in the reporting genxlib Oct 2019 #5

No sense at all. I think published polls should provide a link to the actual questions MadLinguist Oct 2019 #7

Here's the actual question: catbyte Oct 2019 #10

Do you think Dems in Congress are overreacting? DeminPennswoods Oct 2019 #11

Thank you for this. ramen Oct 2019 #12

It's sad that people think impeachment is preventing OliverQ Oct 2019 #4

Impeachment would be the only possible path to legislative progress. lagomorph777 Oct 2019 #6

Yep...and unfortunately a lot of the electorate is quite ignorant about how our government works sdfernando Oct 2019 #14

WAPO FAKE NEWZ progressoid Oct 2019 #8

Not sarcasm! Fake news reality. Corruption is the next word to demonize. Listen to Rachel Maddow usaf-vet Oct 2019 #17

Lots of us on here said this - once people start looking into why Trump is getting PatrickforO Oct 2019 #9

Yep, once Americans really focused on what Trump's doing, DeminPennswoods Oct 2019 #13

+1 n/t MFGsunny Oct 2019 #15

A crescendo. Yes. I like that :) PatrickforO Oct 2019 #16

Recommended. H2O Man Oct 2019 #18

These aren't useful data. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #19

The bigger they come struggle4progress Oct 2019 #20

Looks like Trump is going down pandr32 Oct 2019 #21