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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Poll finds strong opposition to a government shutdown
Overall, 71 percent of those surveyed opposed a shutdown, while 23 percent favored a shutdown. Among Republicans, 53 percent opposed, versus 37 percent who favored.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-poll-finds-strong-opposition-to-government-shutdown/article/2534580
The good news is that we've won. Given these polling results, the GOP is stuck between backing down in the most humiliating way possible, and taking actions that will absolutely, 100%, cause them to lose their majority in 2014.
It's good to see the GOP being punished for being captured by their fringe wingnuts.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,596 posts)of time and the Republicans will get their clocks cleaned.
Thanks for the thread, ConservativeDemocrat.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)If the government defaults; will the fallout from that be a deepening of austerity policies?
How much slumbering power is in the system ready to be brought forth when the system crashes, either by chance of as an objective?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)perhaps regaining momentum in the GOP?
calimary
(81,612 posts)Even though four out of ten constitutes a minority. In the GOP, minority views have a way of speaking a lot louder and more forcefully than they deserve to.
HatTrick
(129 posts)He's severely misinformed.
Only listens to:
Michael Savage
Mark Levin
Faux News.
One of those who says he "doesn't trust the liberal media". So, he has quite a warped since of reality when he's being lied to every day.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)in their own district. In their gerrymandered districts many of them will be primaried if they don't continue what they are doing.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Cha
(298,139 posts)more or less..
Berlum
(7,044 posts)The RepubliBaggers needed a poll to get a clue on that? Sheeesh.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Government to stop Obamacare, I would think after the kinks gets worked out after the sign up and the lies told by the GOP are realized Americans will like ACA.
Squinch
(51,096 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)SunSeeker
(51,827 posts)nightscanner59
(802 posts)No kidding. I spend some time on a public polling site called SodaHead. The commentary section of each poll posted provides some forum for discussion. A lot of the RW'ers are knuckleheaded and cannot be reasoned with, at all. Some of them, us "liberals" make some headway with.
I ignore the polls that are obviously so slanted there is no room for a reasonable person to comment. A year ago or so, the site tended to be so overwhelmingly RW no logic could hardly worm it's way in. We still "lose" the polling just by sheer numbers of RW'ers but slowly getting better.
It's really a lot of fun, sort of jaw dropping when the radicals comment in some ignorant fashion, but I'm trying to get more "lefties" to balance things out there. Slowly, that is happening.
If you want to have some fun, I'll link you to one of my polls here, and you can get started:
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/do-you-support-background-checks-for-firearm-purchases-if-not-why-not/question-3930907/
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)2014 should swing BRIGHT blue.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)see UpChuck.
Wing nuts from the right are not "Christians". They are the opposite.