I don’t know how they ask these impeachment questions. If you go up to some random dude on the street ask him if he thinks the president should be impeached, that’s a lot different from asking whether he thinks it would be a good idea for the House Republicans to impeach him considering that the Senate would just acquit him. In other words, you aren’t asking a political question. You aren’t asking a strategic question. You aren’t asking what the random man thinks the House Republicans ought to do. You’re basically just asking some random man whether he’d personally like to see the president removed from office. So, it’s not surprising that 60% of Republicans answer in the affirmative. I’m surprised it isn’t higher.
Now, if you ask these people why they think the president should be impeached, you will probably hear them repeat some hash of Benghazi and Fast & Furious and Solyndra and ObamaCare and IRS and tyranny. Maybe you’ll hear something about the NSA, but that’s more likely from independents and Democrats. Overall, most of these folks will mention something that is either entirely made up or is completely overblown. It will be something they heard on hate radio or watched on hate television. This is what makes them think the president deserves to be impeached, but they’d want pretty much any Democrat removed from office because they don’t like Democrats.
Then there’s the rare honest voter who will say they think he should be impeached because he’s black.