At the end of our 4-month panel survey, @ameliatd and @LikhithaBu interviewed some of the participants to get a better sense of how they felt. The answer?
"We’re divided. We’re stuck. I knew that before impeachment, but it’s even clearer to me now."https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/impeachment-didnt-change-minds-it-eroded-trust/ …
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After Trump's acquittal, some Democrats became more disillusioned -- more said impeachment was a bad use of time, fewer said senators were impartial, and fewer said they thought impeachment would hurt Trump's reelection chances. (And look at these gorgeous
@wiederkehra charts!)pic.twitter.com/T1WMTtpPMR
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Meanwhile, Republicans consolidated behind their party and their president; the share of people who approve, and especially of those who strongly approve, of the way Republicans and Trump handled the impeachment process went up.pic.twitter.com/L44hS0mRWc
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And while the share of Republicans who strongly disapproved of how Democrats were handling the process started out high (67%) and stayed there, the share of Republicans who strongly disapproved of Democrats caught up over the course of the 4 months.pic.twitter.com/gtdoAOUAZj
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...this should be "the share of *Democrats* who strongly disapproved of *Republicans* caught up over the course of the 4 months", as the chart shows!
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