Poll Indicates GOP Has Been Deeply Damaged By Shutdown Fight

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – OCTOBER 1, 2013, 6:51 AM EDT

Republicans in Washington insist they have simply been upholding the wishes of the American people throughout their efforts to block the Affordable Care Act, but a poll released Tuesday tells a very different story.

In fact, the latest survey from Quinnipiac University contains a ton of bad news for the GOP. For starters, 72 percent of Americans said they are opposed to shutting down the government in order to block implemntation of the health care law. A poll last week also showed a wide majority opposed to shutting down the government over Obamacare.

The federal government shut down for the first time since 1996 on Tuesday morning amid Republican-led efforts to include policy concessions on the health care law in must-pass bills to fund the government.

While Quinnipiac's poll showed that the Affordable Care Act remains polarizing — 45 percent support it while 47 percent are opposed — 58 percent said they are opposed to Congress cutting off funding for the law. Seventy-four percent said they disapprove of congressional Republicans while only 17 percent said they approve — their lowest score ever in Quinnipiac's polling.

complete article:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-indicates-gop-has-been-deeply-damaged-by-shutdown-fight

[Botany]

1. ATTN Harry Reid do not negotiate with the Boner and the House Repugs

You have no reason to do so. Not only are the repugs losing in the court of public opinion
but in the way government works too. The House and Senate have joint committees
all the time at which they mark up BILLS and negotiate on the final product that
both branches will then vote on but the ACA aka "Obama-care" is not a bill it is
a LAW and the time in which to have those negotiations is long gone.

[Wilms]

2. ^

[Myrina]

3. Who gives a shit about polls at this point?

The Shutdown is going to do serious damage to the average American family.

This isn't about the political points-tennis-match anymore, it's real.

[Laelth]

4. It has ALWAYS been real.

This may sound cold, but a positive consequence of this fiasco may be that now more Americans will pay attention.

-Laelth

[stevenleser]

7. The polls show what the American people think. It makes sense to care about that.

If they blamed Democrats, we would have to react differently.

[stevenleser]

5. Yes, the Republican Party damages itself more each hour that this continues. nt

[Rozlee]

6. Between the sequester and the shutdown, these bastards have brought our nation to its knees

more than al-Qaeda ever did. I am dead serious. Our economy has been trashed and American families are suffering due to these asswipes. Fucking bastards won the Civil War. They were lying in wait for almost a hundred and fifty years to finally rise up and destroy the Union along with their Yankee sympathizers.