BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentuckians oppose impeachment of President Clinton nearly 2-1 and believe by a similar margin that he should finish out his term instead of resigning, according to a new poll.
The survey also showed Mr. Clinton with the highest job-approval rating he has ever gotten in the Bluegrass State Poll, conducted by The Courier-Journal Sept. 25-30 and published Tuesday.
The poll comes a little more than a month after Mr. Clinton admitted to the nation that he lied about his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In the weeks since, the public has been deluged with almost daily revelations from the voluminous documentation independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent to Congress.
The House Judiciary Committee voted Monday night to open an impeachment inquiry.
The poll found Kentuckians divided over whether Congress should censure, or publicly reprimand, Mr. Clinton.
The 63 percent job-approval rating tops the 62 percent Mr. Clinton got in a Bluegrass State Poll last March. Mr. Clinton received similarly high ratings in national polls last month.
The Bluegrass State Poll is based on interviews with 809 Kentucky adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
