--- title: Poll: One Third of Americans Want President Obama Impeached description: Including 13% of Democrats canonical: https://time.com/3033757/poll-obama-impeached-third/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-25T12:32:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:20:46.415Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: One Third of Americans Want President Obama Impeached og:description: Including 13% of Democrats og:url: https://time.com/3033757/poll-obama-impeached-third/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6acc0fbebede29e/69869b9206f2c1cc0532fe38/451910914.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Barack Obama in Colorado og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: One Third of Americans Want President Obama Impeached twitter:description: Including 13% of Democrats twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6acc0fbebede29e/69869b9206f2c1cc0532fe38/451910914.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: One Third of Americans Want Obama Impeached  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 25, 2014 12:32 PM UTC  President Barack Obama President Barack ObamaRJ Sangosti—Denver Post/Getty Images  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 25, 2014 12:32 PM UTC Roughly a third of adult Americans want to see President Barack Obama impeached, according to a new CNN [poll](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/07/24/rel7e.pdf) released Friday. Support for impeachment cuts down party lines, with 57% of Republicans favoring the idea but just 35% of independents and 13% of Democrats feeling similarly. The poll comes a day after the House Rules Committee approved Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against the President over part of his signature health care law. Some conservatives, including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, have gone a step further than the lawsuit, [calling](http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/08/Exclusive-Sarah-Palin-Time-to-Impeach-President-Obama) for Obama’s impeachment. The solid majority of Americans who oppose impeaching the president is similar to previous years, CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. In 1998, 67% of Americans opposed impeaching President Bill Clinton and 69% opposed impeaching George W. Bush in 2006. The poll surveyed 1, 012 adult Americans between July 18-20 with a 3% margin of error. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3033757/poll-obama-impeached-third/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3033757/poll-obama-impeached-third/"},"headline":"Poll: One Third of Americans Want Obama Impeached","datePublished":"2014-07-25T12:32:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:20:46.415Z","description":"But solid majority would oppose a move sought by some conservatives","url":"https://time.com/3033757/poll-obama-impeached-third/","keywords":["Obamacare","Barack Obama","Obama","Lawsuit","Boehner","Impeachment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6acc0fbebede29e/69869b9206f2c1cc0532fe38/451910914.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6acc0fbebede29e/69869b9206f2c1cc0532fe38/451910914.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Barack Obama in Colorado","caption":"President Barack Obama in Colorado","creditText":"RJ Sangosti—Denver Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3033757/poll-obama-impeached-third/","name":"Poll: One Third of Americans Want Obama Impeached"}}]}] ```