What Polling Can Tell Us...

We are inundated with polls every day.

Most of them we just ignore, as we should.  Just ignore them.  Because they mostly mean nothing to us.    Perhaps except for this one...

Quinnipiac University, one of our oldest, largest and most respected pollsters, just published a nationwide poll you might find of interest.*  I certainly did.  Here is the question asked of the respondents:    

     "Should the Senate vote to remove

    the President from office?"

Here are the responses in brief:

             Total:     Republican:     Democrat:     Independent:

Yes:        47%            2%                  92%                44%

 No:        48%           97%                   4%                48%

D.K.:        5%             -                        4%                  8%

Some of these numbers are pretty alarming.  First, almost all Democrats think The Donald should be removed from office.  Handcuffed, hog-tied and frog-marched out of the White House.  

And almost all Republicans think The Donald should be left alone to continue doing his job, with the knowledge that we citizens can remove him at the ballot box in 9 months, should we wish to do so at that time.

And finally, half the Independents agree with the Democrats, and the other half agree with Republicans.  I guess that's why they're called Independents.  They simply cannot make up their minds...

And, as always, 5% (Don't Know) have no idea what the Hell is going on.  Where they are, what day it is, like that.

But what I find both interesting and enlightening in the above poll result is the 47% who want Trump removed.  Isn't it interesting that exactly 47% of our population, the very same percentage, pay absolutely zero income taxes?  None?  And that's according to the Treasury Department.  

So it would seem that those who are working and producing and paying their "fair share," as the Dems are fond of bleating at every opportunity, are the very same ones who want the POTUS left alone to continue doing his job.  And the ones who are free-riding on our society, paying nothing toward the military and education and the environment and infrastructure and highway maintenance and defense and health care and everything else, want him booted and replaced with a Bernie-type socialist who promises to give them even more free stuff than they're now getting.  Which is quite a lot, BTW.  

Can you think of a more telling example of what's wrong with our society today?  

*  Conducted 1/22 - 27/20, +/- 2.9% error variance.