According to Zogby:

The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2.

The poll found that 53% agreed with the statement:

"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."

42% disagreed, and 5% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9% margin of error.

And it's not just one-sided. 29% of Republicans favored impeachment. You know things are pretty bad when nearly a third of your base is ready to run you out on a rail.

Some other surprises:

Responses to the Zogby poll varied by political party affiliation: 76% of Democrats favored impeachment, compared to 50% of Independents and 29% of Republicans.

Responses also varied by age, sex, race, and religion. 70% of those 18-29 favored impeachment, 51% of those 31-49, 50% of those 50-64, and 42% of those over 65. 56% of women favored impeachment, compared to 49% of men. Among African Americans, 90% favored impeachment, compared to 67% of Hispanics, and 46% of whites. Majorities of Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Others favored impeachment, while 49% of Protestants and 46% of Born Again Christians did so.

Majorities favored impeachment in the East (53%), West (56%), and Central states (58%), but not the South (43%). In large cities, 58% support impeachment; in small cities, 56%; in suburbs, 49%; in rural areas, 46%.

So the question is whether Bush lied about the reasons to go to war. Considering that he, Cheney and the neo-cons started talking about plans to invade Iraq as soon as they got into the White House, and the documented "fixing the facts to fit the policy" in the Downing Street Memos, and the White House scandal over their frenzy to discredit WMD skeptic Joe Wilson, there doesn't seem to be much doubt about that question.

In fact:

Other polls show a majority of U.S. adults believe that Bush did in fact lie about the reasons for war. A June 23-26 ABC/Washington Post poll found 52% of Americans believe the Bush administration "deliberately misled the public before the war," and 57% say the Bush administration "intentionally exaggerated its evidence that pre-war Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons." Support for the war has dropped significantly since June, which suggests that the percentage of Americans who believe Bush lied about the war has increased.

And yet the mainstream media continue to gloss over Bush's "political capital" bankruptcy.

The strong support for impeachment found in this poll is especially surprising because the views of impeachment supporters are entirely absent from the broadcast and print media, and can only be found on the Internet and in street protests. The lack of coverage of impeachment support is due in part to the fact that not a single Democrat in Congress has called for impeachment, despite considerable grassroots activism by groups like Democrats.com (http://democrats.com/impeach).

Ah, but we forget. The mainstream media are supposed to tell us what's important, and lies in the run-up to war are apparently not news. Thus, pro-impeachment sentiments would not be news, either.

And with Democrats still cowering from right-wing blowhard rhetoric, maybe it won't ever be news. After all, the Democrats wouldn't want to be accused of "criminalizing politics" -- even when the Republicans have been politicizing crime.

[Via Americablog]

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