Sad!
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds substantially greater Republican risk in a government shutdown, with Americans by a 20-point margin saying they’re more likely to blame Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the congressional Democrats if one occurs.
Forty-eight percent in the national survey say they’d blame Trump and the GOP, vs. 28 percent who’d blame the Democrats in Congress. An additional 18 percent would blame both equally.
As is often the case in Washington mud fights, political independents make the difference: They’re more likely to blame the Republican side by 46-25 percent. But there’s also a broad gender gap, with comparative GOP vulnerability among independent women and even among Republican women – notable results a day before the 2018 women’s marches on Saturday. (our emphasis)Clearly a plurality of our fellow citizens are paying attention. That's very good. But Democrats have to pound the message over and over that the existential problems continues to be the incompetent, extremist Republican Congress and their obeisance to the White (Supremacist) House of Very Stable Genius Donald "Rump" Trump, who refuse to act in good faith on Dreamers and other priorities.
Democrats have the public behind them; they must lead.
