GOP Poll finds strong opposition to a government shutdown

[ConservativeDemocrat]

In a national survey of 1,000 registered voters done July 31 and August 1, the question, from pollster David Winston, said, “Some members of Congress have proposed shutting down the government as a way to defund the president’s health care law” and asked respondents whether they favored or opposed that plan.

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]

1. Imagine that! I'd like to see the asswipes try it now!

[Uncle Joe]

2. If they think those poll#s are bad now opposing a shutdown let them shut it down for any length

of time and the Republicans will get their clocks cleaned.

Thanks for the thread, ConservativeDemocrat.

[Dawson Leery]

6. If the government is forced to default, the GOP would not want to face 2014.

[Half-Century Man]

18. 2014 might be a moot point.

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]

3. Is sanity

perhaps regaining momentum in the GOP?

[calimary]

16. Not necessarily. Almost four out of ten think it's a good idea.

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]

19. I know someone who thinks it's a good idea

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]

4. Individual Congress Gopers don't give a damn about polls, except

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]

5. They are so effing crazy they probably don't care.

[Cha]

9. That's exactly what I was thinking..

more or less..

[Arugula Latte]

10. Aloha!

[Berlum]

7. D'oh - no one wants the Repubbies to drop their diapers on America

The RepubliBaggers needed a poll to get a clue on that? Sheeesh.

[sheshe2]

8. K&R

[Thinkingabout]

11. Now is the moment of truth for Teddy boy, Americans are not in favor of forcing a shut down of

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]

12. That's not going to stop them.

[cheapdate]

14. No, it won't. These lunatics are "all in".

[SunSeeker]

13. K & R

[nightscanner59]

15. There are still wingnuts trying to blame the shutdown on Dem's!

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]

17. Their masters want it. . .they will go down with the ship

2014 should swing BRIGHT blue.

[Iliyah]

20. Their masters want it and they have control of the media

see UpChuck.

Wing nuts from the right are not "Christians". They are the opposite.

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R