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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Surething who wrote (964)	1/25/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: Mr Metals	Respond to of 20981

Poll: If Clinton Lied, He Should Go .c The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Many Americans believe President Bill Clinton should be impeached or resign if he lied under oath about an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky or tried to obstruct justice by telling her to deny the affair, according to a Los Angeles Times poll released Sunday. Of 1,191 adults surveyed Friday and Saturday, 51 percent said Clinton should be impeached if he lied under oath and 61 percent said asking Ms. Lewinsky to lie would be cause to force him out of the Oval Office. Ten percent felt he should resign if he lied under oath and 9 percent felt he should step down if he asked Ms. Lewinsky to lie. About one-third of the respondents said the alleged affair itself should prompt the president to resign. ''We have these feelings that presidents should only be the best and the brightest and have the highest possible morals,'' said respondent Julie Turner, 56, of Portland, Ore. ''But presidents are human beings. And in (Clinton's) case, we knew this was an issue.'' An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 54 percent of respondents believe Clinton should be impeached if he lied under oath, and 50 percent believed he should be forced out if he told Ms. Lewinsky to lie. But the ABC poll, of 1,020 adults on Friday and Saturday, found that 64 percent believed he should resign if he perjured himself and 60 percent felt he should step down if he told her to lie. If he had the affair, 37 percent favored resignation. Newsweek also conducted a poll, finding that 49 percent of those questioned favored impeachment if Clinton told Ms. Lewinsky to lie under oath. The poll of 751 adults found that his approval rating had fallen to 54 percent, from a high of 61 percent on Jan. 18, before the scandal broke. Fifty-nine percent of those questioned for the Times poll approved of the way Clinton is handling his job and 48 percent said they have a favorable impression of him, a significant drop from a September poll that gave him a 59 percent favorability rating. Women and Democrats made up the majority of those responding positively to the president, the Times said. A poll for The Boston Globe found 55 percent of women continue to rate the president favorably while only 48 percent of men do. People were split on whether to believe Clinton had the alleged affair. Forty-four percent of those questioned by the Times said he did, 33 percent said he didn't and 22 percent said they didn't know. ''I think it's a pattern,'' said respondent Mary Merrill, 63, of Hopkinton, N.H., adding she thinks Clinton is lying about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. ''I think the man has a problem with sex.'' Only 36 percent of women polled for the Globe said they thought Clinton had a sexual affair with Lewinsky, while 53 percent of men thought the allegations were probably or definitely true. A poll by the Boston Herald found 35 percent of women believed Clinton when he denied the affair, while only 26 percent of men thought Clinton told the truth. The Times and the ABC polls both had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Newsweek said its poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The Globe poll of 400 people had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent and the Herald poll of 414 people had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percent. AP-NY-01-25-98 1520EST Mr Metals