STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. If House Democrats in moderate districts are going to face a ferocious Republican backlash for supporting an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump , it hasnt started just yet.

At swing-seat town halls here and in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, two first-term Democrats , Reps. Max Rose of New York and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, saw their newfound support for an impeachment inquiry met mostly with applause. Both are the type of Democrats in purple areas that Republicans have sworn would pay a steep political price for backing impeachment.

Their warm receptions show how rapidly the perceived politics of an impeachment inquiry are changing. Though Democrats long feared impeaching the president would gin up Trumps fiercely conservative base voters and overshadow the partys focus on health care and the economy, tightly crafted to appeal to swing voters. Instead, many Democratic operatives are increasingly seeing an impeachment inquiry as politically neutral.

For instance, Priorities USA the largest Democratic super-PAC and a longtime advocate of the idea Democrats should remain focused on economic issues released polling this week aimed at showing major warning signs for the GOP on impeachment. The poll, conducted by Civis Analytics, found 45% of likely 2020 voters support impeachment, while 40% oppose it. (The poll is broadly in line with other recent public polling, though.)