随着弹劾调查最近的公开阶段接近尾声，两项新的民意调查清楚地显示了选民的情绪:听证会虽然常常具有启发性，但对改变公众对弹劾总统的支持作用甚微。
一项新的政治/早晨咨询民意调查发现，50%的美国成年人支持弹劾总统。这项调查是在亚当·希夫(加州民主党)主持的众议院情报委员会见证第二周的几天后进行的。
这仅仅是增加了2个百分点，因为在听证会的第一周之后，在欧盟大使戈登·桑德拉和副总统助理珍妮弗·威廉姆斯的爆炸性证词驳斥唐纳德·特朗普总统为其与乌克兰的接触辩护的要点之前，就提出了同样的问题。
希夫说，他的委员会将准备一份调查结果报告，并在感恩节休会后提交给众议院司法委员会。
48%的多数选民支持当前的弹劾调查，而43%的人不支持。自上一次晨间咨询投票以来，支持调查的选民人数没有变化，尽管放弃支持的选民人数略有下降。
当被问及是否赞成众议院民主党人进行调查的方式时，44%的人表示不赞成，相比之下，赞成的比例更小——43%。
美国有线电视新闻网的一项新调查测量了类似的回答。根据调查，50%的美国成年人认为特朗普应该被弹劾和免职。43%的受访者感觉不一样。质询是在弹劾调查作证的最后一周之后的几天进行的。
这些结果与美国有线电视新闻网10月份在公开听证会开始前进行的类似调查相同。根据美国有线电视新闻网的民意调查，最大的转变开始于2019年3月左右，当时弹劾和罢免的支持率相对较低，只有36%。在接下来的几个月里，支持弹劾的态度急剧上升，达到目前的50%，这是有线电视新闻网一年多来最大的支持率。
众议院情报委员会主席亚当·希夫和唐纳德·特朗普。一项新的政治/早晨咨询民意调查发现，50%的美国成年人支持弹劾总统。
这在一定程度上与特别顾问罗伯特·穆勒3月底提交的报告和随后对司法部长威廉·巴尔对其调查结果的有争议的总结的报道相吻合，这可能无意中引起了对报告细节的更多关注。
根据盖洛普的历史调查，对弹劾和罢免特朗普的支持不如水门事件期间以及理查德·尼克松辞去总统职务之前那么强烈，更具党派性。
根据盖洛普的测量，当时58%的美国成年人支持弹劾和罢免，尽管这与51%的成年人支持对特朗普实施同样的制裁相当。此外，31%的共和党人认为尼克松应该下台，相比之下，只有7%的共和党人对特朗普持同样的看法。
围绕尼克松下台的共识形成得相对较快。在1974年的几个月里，对他的弹劾和免职的支持激增了10到15个百分点。此外，对尼克松的弹劾犹豫不决的美国人远远多于对特朗普犹豫不决的1%。
在比尔·克林顿总统弹劾程序的类似时期——就在众议院批准针对克林顿的弹劾条款之前，在参议院投票宣布无罪后，克林顿几乎没有继续担任总统——支持弹劾和罢免的美国人要少得多。盖洛普的数据显示，当时只有32%的人希望克林顿下台，比支持特朗普下台的美国人的比例整整低19个百分点。
根据盖洛普的历史调查，对弹劾理查德·尼克松总统的支持比目前对弹劾唐纳德·特朗普的态度略高，党派性也略低。
IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS DO LITTLE TO MOVE NEEDLE ON SUPPORT FOR REMOVING TRUMP, SURVEYS FIND
As the recent public phase of the impeachment inquiry came to a close, two new polls put voter sentiment in clear view: The hearings, while often revelatory, did little to change public support for impeaching the president.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 50 percent of U.S. adults support impeaching the president. The survey was conducted in the days following the second week of witnesses' testimony before the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
This represents a mere 2 point increase since the same question was asked after the first week of hearings, before the bombshell testimonies of EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland and vice presidential aide Jennifer Williams refuted key points of President Donald Trump's defense of his engagement with Ukraine.
Schiff said his committee will prepare a report of its findings and send it to the House Judiciary Committee after the Thanksgiving recess.
A plurality of voters—48 percent—support the current impeachment inquiry, compared with 43 percent who do not. The number of voters supporting the inquiry has not changed since the previous Morning Consult poll, though the number of voters forgoing support has dipped slightly.
Asked whether they approve of how House Democrats are conducting the inquiry, 44 percent expressed disapproval, compared with a smaller share—43 percent—that approves.
A new CNN poll measured similar responses. According to its survey, 50 percent of U.S. adults believe that Trump should be impeached and removed from office. Forty-three percent of respondents did not feel the same. The questioning was conducted in the days following the final week of testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
These results are identical to a similar CNN survey conducted in October, before the public hearings began. The largest shifts in opinion, according to CNN polling, started to occur in or around March 2019, when support for impeachment and removal was at a relative low of 36 percent. Over the subsequent months, pro-impeachment attitudes have shot up dramatically to where they currently stand, at 50 percent, CNN's largest measurement of support in over a year.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Donald Trump. A new Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 50 percent of U.S. adults support impeaching the president.
This coincides somewhat with the submission of special counsel Robert Mueller's report in late March and the subsequent coverage of Attorney General William Barr's controversial summary of its findings, which perhaps inadvertently spurred greater attention to the report's details.
Support for impeaching and removing Trump is less substantial and more partisan than it was during the Watergate scandal and just before Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, according to historical Gallup surveys.
At the time, 58 percent of U.S. adults favored impeachment and removal, although this is comparable to the 51 percent of adults who support the same sanction against Trump, according to Gallup's measurements. Additionally, 31 percent of Republicans thought Nixon should be removed, compared with just 7 percent of Republicans who think the same about Trump.
A consensus formed relatively quickly around Nixon's ouster. Over a few months in 1974, support for his impeachment and removal surged by around 10 to 15 points. Also, far more Americans—around 10 percent—were undecided about Nixon's impeachment than the 1 percent who are undecided about Trump's.
During a comparable period in President Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings—just before the House approved articles of impeachment against Clinton, who then barely stayed on as president after a vote for acquittal in the Senate—far fewer Americans supported impeachment and removal. Only 32 percent, according to Gallup, wanted Clinton removed from office at the time, a full 19 points below the share of Americans who favor Trump's ouster.
Support for impeaching President Richard Nixon was slightly higher and less partisan than current attitudes about impeaching Donald Trump, according to historical Gallup surveys.
