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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (6936)	9/25/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: cool	Respond to of 13994

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) _ New nationwide polls show continued good news for President Clinton, with increasing numbers supporting his job performance and faulting Republicans for their handling of the Lewinsky investigation. The climbing numbers for Clinton in the polls by The New York Times and CBS News and by CNN and USA Today were tempered for Democrats only by figures reiterating predictions of high Republican turnout in November's elections. The Times-CBS poll put Clinton's job approval rating at 67 percent and the CNN-USA Today survey put it at 66 percent. The polls also showed continued public ambivalence toward even the idea of congressional censure in response to Clinton's belated admission of his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which leading Republicans have insisted is so weak a punishment that they don't even want to consider it. The CNN-USA Today poll found 56 percent of those questioned prefer censure, while the Times-CBS survey found 53 percent would be satisfied if no action were taken against the president. Only 31 percent in the CBS-Times poll want Clinton's impeachment or resignation. The CNN-USA Today poll found just 33 percent want his resignation and 29 percent favor his forced removal by Congress. Instead, the CNN-USA Today poll found 59 percent disapprove of the Republican handling on the Lewinsky investigation. And the Times-CBS survey found 64 percent feel independent counsel Kenneth Starr's pursuit of Clinton has been partisan, 78 percent feel it has not been worth the four years and $40 million he has spent on the case, and 54 percent disapprove of the way the House Judiciary Committee is handling the whole matter. The polls in turn warned of possible disappointment for Republicans who had been citing the Lewinsky case as a guarantee of winning results in the Nov. 3 congressional and gubernatorial elections. The CNN-USA Today survey found 51 percent of likely voters said they would choose a Democrat for Congress, up from 48 percent almost two weeks earlier, and 45 percent said Republican, down from 47 percent. And the Times-CBS poll found 48 percent approve of the way Congress is handling its job, down from 56 percent one week earlier. It found 78 percent, including 65 percent of Republicans, feel the Judiciary Committee should not have publicly released the videotape of Clinton's grand jury testimony. But the Times-CBS poll still predicted an optimistic bottom line for Republicans in November, given the likelihood that relatively few Americans actually vote, particularly Democrats, and that mud-slinging may keep even more away. It found Republicans hold a 50 percent to 41 percent advantage among likely voters, if the midterm election turnout holds around the normal 34 percent. The Times-CBS poll involved 960 adults contacted Tuesday and Wednesday, and had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percent. The CNN- USA Today poll involved 1,046 adults, including 539 likely voters, contacted Wednesday and Thursday, with a margin of error ranging from plus or minus 3 percent to 4.5 percent, depending on the question. _- Copyright 1998 by United Press International. All rights reserved. _- * end of story *