President Trump at the White House on Monday. By Emily Guskin and Emily Guskin Polling analyst at The Washington Post specializing in public opinion about politics, elections and public policy. Email Bio Follow Scott Clement Scott Clement Polling director Email Bio Follow March 18 at 6:33 PM On Monday, President Trump tweeted about a new survey finding released earlier in the day. He said that a poll found that “50% of Americans AGREE that Robert Mueller’s investigation is a Witch Hunt.
There are a lot of ways to ask a question such as this, and it’s useful to measure whether Americans share Trump’s skepticism of the Mueller investigation. But this question and its interpretation skirt a couple of best practices for opinion-poll question wording, as highlighted by Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray in several tweets.
Lastly, while the question articulates Trump’s criticism of investigations, it does not offer an alternative view that counters Trump’s opinion — that the investigation is not a witch hunt or that the president has not been subject to more investigations than past presidents. Doing so would provide respondents with a more balanced choice between high-profile arguments.
A Washington Post-Schar School poll that same month also found more saying that Mueller was “mainly interested in finding out the truth” than “hurting Trump politically” .
Mueller got receipts!
Why do you waste time on crap like this?
I thought it was a bitch hunt and it looks like they are after Putin’s bitch.
Analysis: do Americans think WaPo are FakeNews? Depends on whom you ask...
Yes, a witch hunt, never believing Mueller! Washington Post polls cannot be believed! FakeNews
Gone on forever... don’t they have anything to do in Congress?
It will be a PROVEN witch hunt. As soon as Mueller exonerates Trump and most ppl realize there was no evidence to open this investigation to find a crime. The ones who don't realize it will blame Putin for owning Mueller. Because they're retarded.
The evidence is CLEAR. Trump's own words betray him.
More and more think it is cause the news drips are proving it is , but you won’t write the truth , formernewspaper
No it's not, no one can use the law to get their way in this process. WH layers can't have said report before the public can read said report.
Of course. That’s why polls are meaningless.
Of course it is. You been in a cave or something.
It can be argued that Trump is a witch.
how or whom?
Imagine... the credibility, the weight and might of a whole centuries' old Constitution on Mueller's shoulders... A national pride of a sense of RuleOfLaw... To date!
No. The Mueller probe is an investigation on foreign meddling in our democracy, a conspiracy and corruption. By indictments and court findings, the probe is justified.
If you ask anyone with an intellectual point of view they’ll acknowledge the bias in this investigation. Everyone else just falls to the wayside as extremists
Analysis: Who cares what a bunch of low-information dullards think, as if that can quash a criminal indictment.
You mean like this?.. Would You Like To Be A Millionaire and Do You Think The Mueller Investigation Is A Witch Hunt?..Yes?😶
Govt probes are normal practise, to establish facts, esp in case of a genuine national concern. Many before him have been investigated without a hitch. Typical Trump ruse to blur up things like he did with his election cheating lie. In this one he wants to discredit the probe
you mean like this?..' Would You Like To Be A Millionaire and Do You think The Mueller Investigation Is A With Hunt?..Yes or No..
Yes.. and Trump is the witch!
No, it’s much needed and if the republicans would’ve done the job America elected them to do for the last 2 years All the World would be 2 years ahead of this mess!! dumpgop
Poll question: Do you think President Trump is: /a/ a poor little lost boy, or /b/ a raging megalomaniac interested only in personal gain?
It is not a witch Hunt, but a real hunt.
How did YOUR polls, expert analysis/opinions work out for YOU in 2016? Thats right they didn't! Depends on how you ask🤣🤣🤣🤣
Since it started on something fake. Yes
So Nixon-esque.
Call this BREAKING! and I’ll cancel my subscription.
When Grant was accused of corruption, he gave a sworn deposition and authorized unfettered investigation. Let trump follow this example.
It depend whom you ask. If you ask Trump supporters regardless of how you ask the answer will be 100% 'Yes'. If you ask Democrats the answer my differ from 0% to 10% 'Yes' depending how you define 'witch hunt'. If you ask not affiliated with major party, probably 'Don't care'.
'More than 82 percent of voters surveyed said it was very or somewhat important that Mueller’s report be released to the public, according to a Suffolk University/USA TODAY national poll.'Boston Globe
You keep rationalizing and doing mental gymnastics to contriduct Trump - in the end he's right. He's right more often than not because he's not clouded by imagined things.
AngeleStar11 Witch Hunt plain and simple!!!
1. Suffolk is usually better than this. 2. A pro like SusanPage or some USATODAY editor should have caught the flawed question before fomenting such a misleading narrative. 3. Speed-freak pseudo-reporters again resorted to pack journalism w/ovalidating the story themselves.
When you dignify bullshit by asking questions around it, you aid and abet Trump's attacks on norms and institutions. It is a properly constituted and legitimate inquiry. Do better, WAPO, because you know better.
What the Clintons, Obama, the DNC, schemers at the DOJ, NSA and FBI, have done is the biggest political scandal in modern American history. If no one goes to jail over this, the United States is no longer a lawful country. Period.
Trump has been on twitter and fox every single day screaming WITCH HUNT for 2 years. As far as I know Ive never heard Robert Mueller speak. America has heard one side and one side only, its been drilled in our heads nonstop, AND WE STILL trust the mute ghost a little more
it’s produced quite a bit of plea deals In the last two years. Will see how things continue in the upcoming months.
depends really on how much they are tuned into Fox, Breitbelch, Info-wars etc
It’s not a witchhunt, a witch is a real. This is worse than that. This is a hunt for something that did not exist.
Does the pope rape kids?
I wish dey leave da President alone
No, I think Crump 🤡 should be impeached
Nope. He's an honorable man.
Which witch hunt?
No, it is not.
Totally legit.
My mother in law is even sick of hearing about it
I do think it’s a which hunt. It’s so obvious to me why not others? Ed
Two years and millions of taxpayer dollars wasted. Now, investigate the other side.
Considering nothing has been presented as evidence yet and the only information we have is hearsay filtered through establishment goons, it’s not really a matter of opinion
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