Biden Impeachment Survey is Misleading

We discovered the social media claims are based on a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports that was published on September 1, 2021. The survey involved 1000 “likely voters” and was conducted on August 30-31, 2021. According to the poll, a total of 83% of Republicans believe Biden deserves to be impeached, with 58% Independents and 40% of Democrats agreeing.

According to the source of the poll, Rasmussen Reports: “It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask” when understanding polling. For their survey conducted about the President’s approval, they asked the question in relation to the job that he did in Afghanistan, not his overall presidency. This was the exact survey question: 

Do you agree or disagree with this statement: “I think Joe Biden deserves to be impeached because he’s abandoned thousands of Afghans who fought with us and he’s going to abandon some American citizens because he capitulated to the Taliban to a 31 August deadline"?

It is important in any survey that the questions are presented in the most unbiased way possible. An example from the Pew Research Center illustrates the point: In a January 2003 survey by Pew Research: “When people were asked whether they would ‘favor or oppose taking military action in Iraq to end Saddam Hussein’s rule,’ 68% said they favored military action while 25% said they opposed military action. However, when asked whether they would ‘favor or oppose taking military action in Iraq to end Saddam Hussein’s rule even if it meant that U.S. forces might suffer thousands of casualties,’ responses were dramatically different; only 43% said they favored military action, while 48% said they opposed it.” 

Since the question that was asked was specific to Afghanistan, and asked those surveyed to consider leaving Americans behind and bending to a Taliban deadline, the question was not presented in an unbiased fashion as would be considered standard in a professional survey.