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...real vote, says Pooley, is the vote on the articles of impeachment, which won't happen until this Congress is back from the midterm elections -- or perhaps even sometime next year. "The idea was to let Democrats vote whichever way they needed to to please their voters at home," says Pooley. "That way they'll be around to help out when it counts." The low defection rate, then, is a relief for Clinton on two counts: Not only is the majority of Democrats still behind him, but their voters...
Among the public, only conservative Republicans seemed to want Clinton impeached, and though the G.O.P. continued to play to them with an eye to mobilizing turnout in the midterm elections, Democrats scoured the horizon for signs of a backlash against the G.O.P. Even in some Republican districts, constituent calls to congressional offices demanding Clinton's resignation or impeachment fell sharply. Gone was talk that leading Senate Democrats would soon be calling for his resignation. In the House more Democrats were willing to follow the White House strategy of blaming Republicans for rubbing America's nose in the mess. Even Representative...
...while polling has inflated people's belief in the power of their opinions, the mechanism for making those opinions felt--voting--has fallen into disrepair. The percentage of Americans who vote in midterm elections is particularly low. It has been dropping for decades, and some analysts predict that this November it will fall to a record-setting...
Public opinion and voting opinion have been out of synch for years. But never before in this era of nonvoting has a midterm election turned into a referendum on a question as grave as impeachment. And so there is reason to believe that if Congress moves toward impeachment, many Americans will feel betrayed. An impeachment-bound Congress may find itself trapped in a paradox: by following the imperatives of our democratic process, it undermines its popular legitimacy...
Case in point: skipping a Sex lecture to watch game seven is acceptable, bagging a midterm because you were thirsting for Joe Morgan's hard-hitting post-game commentary...