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13358057, I agree with this
Posted by Lurkmode, Wed Dec-04-19 01:56 PM
>>Data is already showing that Impeachment is helping drum up
>>Trump's base and it's not moving the needle at all with
>>Independents. If anything, it's turning Independents and
>>non-partisans off.
>
>2019 elections have consistently shown that dem turnout is up
>over lackluster repub turnout (especially in rural areas) and
>normally solid red suburbs (dems/indies/crossover repubs) that
>dems havent won in decades or ever are turning blue.
>
>https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1196539297551269891
>https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1195924841913896960
>https://twitter.com/riseandresistny/status/1192178235024584711
>
>etc etc etc.
>
>mind you...trump campaigned heavy in ky and la and off-year
>election turnout has a history of being *more* favorable to
>republicans (whiter, older, more rural) than the prez general
>will be.
>
>this idea that impeachment is rallying trumps base or hurting
>democrats...i have no idea where people are getting it from.
>because actual election results (the only data that really
>matters) have shown the exact opposite.
>
>i mean...dude has ~20% higher support for impeachment than any
>recent president before him other than nixon (and he isnt too
>far off nixons highest number).
>https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1199515763964436480
>
>you dont think those numbers (and the people who are
>represented by those numbers) are moving the needle?
>

^^^^^^ yep