This AP poll released on Saturday doesn’t show many surprises. The country is polarized, a healthy majority, including Democrats, is happy with the economy, Trump remains at 43% and most people think the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
As for impeachment, they found this:
Impeachment proceedings have closely split the public. In a January poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, slightly more said the Senate should vote to convict Trump and remove him from office than said it should not, 45% to 40%. An additional 14% of those questioned said they did not know enough to have an opinion. In the survey, 42% of Americans said they thought Trump did something illegal in his July telephone call with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and an additional 32% said he did something unethical.
That’s all pretty much expected. But this was interesting:
A slim majority of Republicans, 54%, thought Trump did nothing wrong with Ukraine’s leader, but that share declined slightly from 64% in October.
It’s interesting that fewer Republicans think he did nothing wrong after the impeachment proceedings. I’m frankly surprised. I’m sure most of them will vote for him anyway, of course. After all, Republican senators are all saying that selling out the country for your own personal benefit is just fine. But you have to wonder if there are a couple of percentage points worth of people in there who might still have some ethics.