impeach zogby

update: details of our latest impeachment poll (nov 05) are here
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* adam sent me through a democrats.com email which says:
"According to a recent Zogby Poll, 42% of Americans think Bush should be impeached for lying about Iraq"

adams comment was: "Interesting poll...you'd think something like that would hit the media - I'm still not holding my breath"

i hope he hasnt been holding his breath, cos the zogby poll was at the end of june - he would be a funny shade of blue by now...

but the email did remind me of zogby discussing his poll on olbermann - back on june30 and keith asked when zogby will ask the question again - zogby replied that he'd do it "periodically, probably in a month from now" - which hopefully means that we will see an update of that question right about now.

here are the internals from the june poll:

"In a sign of the continuing partisan division of the nation, more than two-in-five (42%) voters say that, if it is found that President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should hold him accountable through impeachment. While half (50%) of respondents do not hold this view, supporters of impeachment outweigh opponents in some parts of the country.

Among those living in the Western states, a 52% majority favors Congress using the impeachment mechanism while just 41% are opposed; in Eastern states, 49% are in favor and 45% opposed. In the South, meanwhile, impeachment is opposed by three-in-five voters (60%) and supported by just one-in-three (34%); in the Central/Great Lakes region, 52% are opposed and 38% in favor.

Impeachment is overwhelmingly rejected in the Red States—just 36% say they agree Congress should use it if the President is found to have lied on Iraq, while 55% reject this view; in the “Blue States” that voted for Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry in 2004, meanwhile, a plurality of 48% favors such proceedings while 45% are opposed.

A large majority of Democrats (59%) say they agree that the President should be impeached if he lied about Iraq, while just three-in-ten (30%) disagree. Among President Bush’s fellow Republicans, a full one-in-four (25%) indicate they would favor impeaching the President under these circumstances, while seven-in-ten (70%) do not. Independents are more closely divided, with 43% favoring impeachment and 49% opposed."

note that this question is specifically about lying about the war - given all the bad karl-gate news in the past month, it'll be interesting to see how zogby phrases the question this time around, and whether people just want to the president impeached for a bunch of reasons.

(btw - a lot of the focus last month was that "a full one-in-four (25%) (repugs) indicate they would favor impeaching the President under these circumstances")