Looking at the poll numbers in retrospect, the best way to read them was that Americans felt that Bill’s actions were reprehensible and he was a cad, but that it was a personal matter and not something that deserved to be made the subject of an impeachment proceeding. It’s why Bill today is less of a force in DNC politics than he was immediately after his presidency, because the political goodwill have fostered for the positive aspects of his terms in office have been swamped by decades of conservatives hammering on about how he’s a lying and cheating bastard.