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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government
Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government
By Dan Balz and Scott Clement
The budget confrontation that led to a partial government shutdown dealt a major blow to the GOPs image and has exposed significant divisions between tea party supporters and other Republicans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey highlights just how badly the GOP hard-liners and the leaders who went along with them misjudged the public mood. In the aftermath, eight in 10 Americans say they disapprove of the shutdown. Two in three Republicans or independents who lean Republican share a negative view of the impasse. And even a majority of those who support the tea party movement disapprove.
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Asked who they consider responsible for the impasse, 53 percent of poll respondents cite Republicans, 29 percent blame Obama and 15 percent fault both sides equally. Republicans who support the tea party movement overwhelmingly blame Obama for what happened, but among Republicans who do not back the tea party, almost as many cite congressional Republicans as name Obama or both.
Perceptions of the way Republicans handled the budget negotiations grew steadily worse through the weeks of confrontation, rising from 63 percent disapproval on the eve of the 16-day shutdown, which began Oct. 1, to 77 percent disapproval by the time it ended. Nearly three in five Republicans disapprove of their partys handling of the negotiations.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-major-damage-to-gop-after-shutdown-and-broad-dissatisfaction-with-government/2013/10/21/dae5c062-3a84-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html
By Dan Balz and Scott Clement
The budget confrontation that led to a partial government shutdown dealt a major blow to the GOPs image and has exposed significant divisions between tea party supporters and other Republicans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey highlights just how badly the GOP hard-liners and the leaders who went along with them misjudged the public mood. In the aftermath, eight in 10 Americans say they disapprove of the shutdown. Two in three Republicans or independents who lean Republican share a negative view of the impasse. And even a majority of those who support the tea party movement disapprove.
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Asked who they consider responsible for the impasse, 53 percent of poll respondents cite Republicans, 29 percent blame Obama and 15 percent fault both sides equally. Republicans who support the tea party movement overwhelmingly blame Obama for what happened, but among Republicans who do not back the tea party, almost as many cite congressional Republicans as name Obama or both.
Perceptions of the way Republicans handled the budget negotiations grew steadily worse through the weeks of confrontation, rising from 63 percent disapproval on the eve of the 16-day shutdown, which began Oct. 1, to 77 percent disapproval by the time it ended. Nearly three in five Republicans disapprove of their partys handling of the negotiations.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-major-damage-to-gop-after-shutdown-and-broad-dissatisfaction-with-government/2013/10/21/dae5c062-3a84-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html
PPP Poll: Dems Could Win 'Sizable Majority' in House in 2014 - Pickup Opps in 49 of 61 Districts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023893429
How CNN's "Both Sides Do It" Coverage of the Shutdown Failed Massively
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023894376
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Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government (Original Post)
ProSense
Oct 2013
OP
What's likely is that the (alleged) "liberally-biased media" will resurrect the GOP/Teabaggers
zbdent
Oct 2013
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. What's likely is that the (alleged) "liberally-biased media" will resurrect the GOP/Teabaggers
in ways that would make Dr. Frankenstein jealous, and would make the many deaths/resurrections of comic-book superheroes look mundane ...
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Sure, they'll try. n/t
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)2. about time
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)4. More national polling that doesn't mean much in local areas. Baggers can literally burn a rabbit...
.... alive on national TV and their locals will still vote for them in droves (see Mark Sanford.. aka SC theif)
ProSense
(116,464 posts)5. This isn't national:
PPP Poll: Dems Could Win 'Sizable Majority' in House in 2014 - Pickup Opps in 49 of 61 Districts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023893429
...and the health care law and shutdown are amplifying Republican infighting.
Koch brothers eye states, not Congress, for health care goals
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023894578
GOPer To Explore Challenging Idaho Guv Over State's Obamacare Exchange
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/goper-to-explore-challenging-idaho-guv-over-state-s-obamacare-exchange
Darrell Issa: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023896341
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023893429
...and the health care law and shutdown are amplifying Republican infighting.
Koch brothers eye states, not Congress, for health care goals
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023894578
GOPer To Explore Challenging Idaho Guv Over State's Obamacare Exchange
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/goper-to-explore-challenging-idaho-guv-over-state-s-obamacare-exchange
Darrell Issa: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023896341
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)6. Thanks.
K & R