Sinking Utah poll numbers show political toll of government shutdown

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Sinking Utah poll numbers show political toll of government shutdown

By Mark Z. Barabak at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-government-shutdown-hurts-architect-mike-lee-20131010,0,241496.story?track=rss

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The survey found that freshman Republican Sen. Mike Lee, one of the seminal tea partyers and an architect of the current government shutdown, has plunged in popularity, with more than half of Utah voters now disapproving of his performance. In June, Lee’s favorability rating was 50%, compared with 40% in the latest poll.

As it happens, his chief ally in rolling down the gates on the federal government, Sen. Ted Cruz, has also fallen in the public’s esteem. A Gallup Poll out Thursday showed that people have grown more familiar with Cruz as a result of his shutdown crusade and also like him less: Of the more than 6 in 10 surveyed who had an opinion — up from 42% in June — just 26% viewed the Texas senator favorably. (The two played tag team last month during a 21-hour anti-Obama talkathon on the Senate floor).

Lee is not up for reelection in Utah until 2016, making a poll today about as relevant as an extended 3-year weather forecast. More meaningful was this finding: Nearly 6 in 10 of those surveyed said he should be more willing to compromise, even if that means funding the federal healthcare initiative that is Obama’s crowning legislative achievement and was, at least starting out, the casus belli of the 10-day-old shutdown.


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[Tx4obama]

1. Dems need to also get the word out about Meadows (R-NC) - see article link below

Mark Meadows (R-NC) is the Architect of the current shutdown plan

Article here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/house-tea-party/