No. of Recommendations: 5
I’ve been wondering where you’re getting this 33/33/33 poll data that you have been running with, because it’s the only poll that produced those results. All other polls, including those on November 4th, showed the public moving toward the democrats and away from republicans.Almost all the polls I ever saw had the two parties within ten points or less of each other in terms of who the voters blamed. Quinnipiac had it 45-39 (with 11 blaming both):
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3938CBS poll finds voters equally dissatisfied with both parties' handling of shutdown:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-shutdow...NBC had it 52-42 - noting that it's the highest amount of blame the Democrats have
ever had for a shutdown:
An NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters conducted between October 24 and 28, found that 52 percent believe Republicans and the president are more to blame for the government shutdown, while 42 percent say Democrats. The percentage of voters who point fingers at the Democrats is the highest for the party in NBC News polling over the past three decadeshttps://www.newsweek.com/majority-of-voters-blame-...You have a narrative justifying surrender based on a flawed outlier of a poll (ignoring altogether what voters said about the shutdown). Why?Because it's the truth. Voters were blaming the Democrats for the shutdown by far too high of numbers for the GOP to ever change their approach. They weren't losing the battle over public opinion by
enough to make them change.Seriously - what do you think was going to happen over the next month, if the Democrats had not voted to fund the CR? When SNAP benefits and air travel came to a halt, what do you think would have happened?
