Odds Against Impeachment: 1,000 To 1 ...Just Before Nixon Impeachment

[Hissyspit]

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Odd Against Impeachment 1,000 to 1 ... Just Before Nixon Impeachment

Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2008-01-12 22:44. Impeachment
From Time Magazine, June 11, 1973:

Will President Nixon be impeached or forced to resign because of Watergate? Don't bet on it. That's the current advice of Las Vegas Oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek Snyder. He estimates that the odds are 1,000 to 1 against impeachment and a somewhat less staggering 200 to 1 against resignation. Jimmy also says that the odds against convicting former Attorney General John Mitchell are 5 to 1.

Still, times—and odds—change. In the winter of 1971-72, Jimmy was giving 2-to-5 odds that Edmund Muskie would win the Democratic nomination. George McGovern? A 50-to-1 shot.

Thanks to Brian Chambers for pointing this out.

[malaise]

1. These things do take time

I am still hoping!!

I wonder how many DUers believe the Clinton impeachment was orchestrated to prevent the Bush and Cheney impeachments. The Neocon plans were in the works for ages.

Add.

[TahitiNut]

3. Just watching the Seahawks lose to the Pack at Lambeau Field in the snow and cold ...

... I'm thinking of coming for a visit. Make room! Make room!

:rofl: :silly: :rofl:

(I. Hate. Snow.) But it's the ONLY way they should be allowed to play football. Football does NOT deserve to be played under a roof.

[malaise]

7. LOL

:D

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. not being a seer, I didn't think so at the time, but within weeks of

Bush's election I started to come to that conclusion.

Now I'm convinced.

[malaise]

8. When Bush and Cheney started violating the Constitution

and dissing Congress, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

[maine_raptor]

9. "orchestrated"????

Sorry malaise, but that's "Post Hoc" logic. You're saying that "they" carried out the Clinton impeachment before BushCo got into power.

Now if you want to say that the effect of the Clinton impeachment was to dampen down any Bush impeachment talk; yea, there I'll agree with ya.

[orleans]

2. wonder what jimmy's odds were for clinton's impeachment? n/t

[Sadie4629]

4. Except that Nixon wasn't impeached

If you had bet on impeachment you would have lost, because Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. The 200-1 instead of the 1000-1. nt