The Nixon impeachment shows that public opinion can shift dramatically as a result of Congressional hearings.
... [+]Thursday October 31, 2019—Halloween—was an extraordinary day. It was only the fourth time in the 232-year history of America that the House of Representatives passed a resolution to inquire into impeaching the president. Even more extraordinary was that not a single Republican voted for the resolution, despite the obvious grounds for an inquiry and their own repeated calls for a resolution to establish due process.
By contrast, public support for the impeachment and removal of President Trump is now much stronger than that. With the first televised congressional hearings set to begin next week,is now around 47%—up from around 40% just six weeks ago and compared to 19% for Nixon at a similar stage “News coverage, then, had created awareness of Watergate,” wrote sociologists Gladys and Kurt Lang in “but this did not translate directly into a politically relevant response. Watergate never became linked in most people’s minds with Nixon’s fitness to be President. It did not appear to intrude directly into people’s lives…. the crime was perceived as that of politicians against other politicians and thereby too remote from everyday concerns to agitate the ordinary voter.
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