John Prugh writes:
The press is telling me that 60% of the public think we should just drop the whole issue. It is a "private" matter. ON the other hand, 90% of the people I talk to at work, or read on this thread, or overhear at the health club, think that the President has committed a crime.
The problem isn't the media or their "interpretation" of polling results, or even the subset of Americans that the polls are sampling, John. One's own circle of friends/acquaintances always makes for a nonrepresentative, and thus fundamentally flawed, statistical sample.
According to your SI profile, you're an engineer (so am I). Around 90% of the people we talk to at work are conservative, so of course they think Clinton should be convicted and removed from office. That's because the whole witch hunt really is being perpetrated by a vast conservative conspiracy.
Just how vast? Vast enough that 90% of the subset of Americans who are both educated and conservative agree that Congress should reverse the results of the 1996 presidential election, i.e. the will of the American voters, and remove the president from office by force.
BTW, my view is that even if Clinton lied under oath in the Paula Jones trial, that's not an impeachable offense, which the Constitution defines as a high crime or misdemeanor. Of course, I'm an engineer, not a lawyer.
History will look back on 1998-1999's Congresses as the worst in American history. Why? Because besides spending inordinate amounts of time impeaching and trying the president (who will eventually be exonerated), their votes are bought and paid for by campaign contributions from rich individuals and businesses. If you want to look for a Constitutional crisis, there it is.
The Irb
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