Two new polls released today show that while most Americans oppose impeaching President Obama, Republicans disagree.
According to a survey conducted by ORC International for CNN, 65 percent of American adults are against impeaching the president, with just 33 percent in favor. Among Republicans, however, the numbers are flipped, with just 35 percent opposing impeachment and 57 percent supporting it.
A Fox News poll shows pretty much the same thing, with 61 percent opposing impeachment and and 36 percent favoring it overall, but with just 41 percent of Republicans opposing impeachment with 57 percent supporting it.
According to Fox, most Americans—58 percent—do say that the president has "exceeded his authority under the Constitution" when it comes to Obamacare, but that probably says more about the way they phrased the question than anything else. Here's the question they asked:
Do you think President Obama exceeded his authority under the Constitution when he changed the health care law on his own by executive order?
I mean, when you ask it that way, it's sort of a shock they didn't get 100 percent agreement, because last I checked, only Congress can change the law, and if President Obama is amending the text of congressional legislation that would be something of a problem. Of course, that's not happening, which is probably why when CNN asked respondents whether they supported the House GOP's plan to sue president Obama, 57 percent said they didn't.