BTRTN SaturData Review: On S---holes and Shutdowns

The "Fire and Fury" and "shithole" flaps do not appear to have damaged Trump too much in the short term, but the shutdown is more than just "bad words"...
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/01/btrtn-saturdata-review-on-s-holes-and.html

"Now we see who wins the blame game – the polls (and common sense) seem to indicate that the GOP will take the brunt of it, since they control the government. Trump’s video from 2013, in which he holds Obama personally accountable (as the occupant of the Oval Office) for the last shutdown, has been replayed endlessly. A CNN poll held that roughly half the electorate says the GOP and the President will be blamed, 30% the Democrats, 10% “all of them” (and 10% no answer). Next week we will see the impacts on the approval ratings and the generic ballot.

As expected, Donald Trump’s “shithole” comments from a week ago Thursday (Jan 11) did little to his approval rating, which dropped merely a single point to 41%. The outrage over the comments extended almost a full week, as it intermingled with the government shutdown/spending bill/DACA/CHIP phantasmagoria. GOP..."