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Poll: Blame for DHS shutdown would fall to GOP (Will the GOP buckle?
CNN ^ | 2/17/2015 (4:31 PM ET) | Jennifer Angiesta

Posted on 02/17/2015 4:34:30 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist

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To: skeeter
Is the great middle really this mush-headed?

No, Mitch et al are really this mush-headed.

21 posted on 02/17/2015 4:49:30 PM PST by ez (Cruz/Rubio for the win. Si, se puede.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
How do you know that it is just 10%?

One of these days you might figure out that Gruber was abso-phock-ingly correct....the American voter is, in general, ignorant and more interested in Muffy the Vampire Slayer than knowing anything - anything - about how this country is run, or what's going on three blocks away from their housing project.

I'm guessing the real number is LESS than 10 percent.

22 posted on 02/17/2015 4:50:02 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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23 posted on 02/17/2015 4:51:53 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The survey finds that 53% of Americans freeloading, low information commie DemocRAT voters would blame the Republicans in Congress if the department must shut down...
24 posted on 02/17/2015 4:56:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Illegal Aliens' Message to Americans. Hands Up, Don't Breathe!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

2013 - GOP blamed for government shutdown.

2014 elections - GOP wins largest congressional majority since 1928.

Yeah, those government shutdowns are just killing the GOP
25 posted on 02/17/2015 4:57:40 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

CNN Poll? Uh right. I don’t trust them to do anything right.


26 posted on 02/17/2015 4:58:34 PM PST by sigzero
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To: mrsmith

And you expect a fair poll from “Commie News Network”?


27 posted on 02/17/2015 4:59:00 PM PST by Boomer One ( ToUse)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Obama had to go out of his way to make people notice the last shutdown. It cost more to “close” open air parks than to do nothing.

I expected Boehner to have folded by now. Pleasantly surprised by his last statement. The conservatives in the House are standing strong.
Mitch has already folded. Most of the GOP Senators want to give Obama money to pass out to Fraudulently Documented Foreigners. Sessions, Lee, Cruz, and a few more have been opposing all the Democrats and more than half their own party.


28 posted on 02/17/2015 5:01:44 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The American public is predetermined to blame the GOP for any ramifications of conflict between them and Obama. Americans reflexively want to give Obama a pass. We don’t have to like it, but that’s the dynamic the Repubs face. It’s still incumbent on them to act anyway.


29 posted on 02/17/2015 5:08:45 PM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

the GOP has the majority in the House & Senate and that was after a shutdown where polling had people blaming the GOP for it.


30 posted on 02/17/2015 5:10:10 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
There's been enough political awareness education and conditioning in the last 10 years that I think the GOP newbies are determined to vote like patriots

I'm sure there will be some disappointments, but overall ... I think they'll grin and bear the accusation and continue to TRY to save America

There's still a lot of space between now and the election

31 posted on 02/17/2015 5:15:53 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
"according to a new CNN/ORC poll"

Is there any reason to believe a traitorous poll of fellow traitors taken by a traitorous fifth-column media organization?!?

32 posted on 02/17/2015 5:17:13 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Shut it down. They haven’t done a damn thing about anything.


33 posted on 02/17/2015 5:18:58 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Why doesn’t the GOP just spell out exactly why they are holding the purse strings instead of letting the Left fill in the blanks for them? Thats what the issue is. People need to know what ts really about.


34 posted on 02/17/2015 5:25:22 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

As if a CNN poll is credible.


35 posted on 02/17/2015 5:25:48 PM PST by GilGil
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Oh well. Take the blame. It’ll turn.


36 posted on 02/17/2015 5:31:03 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

But the department is deemed essential and thus it will not shut down. What the heck are they talking about. Only in the USA do I read about shut downs that are not shut downs and cuts which in realty are reductions in spending increases.


37 posted on 02/17/2015 5:32:28 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
To show my point:
Here is the only poll during the 2013 shutdown that gave the choice of blaming Dems in congress:

Notice that although Rs consistently got more blame than either Obama -which the media constantly trumpeted- yet they consistently got less blame than Obama and the Dems combined.
By the end 62% blamed either Obama or another Dem.

38 posted on 02/17/2015 5:52:33 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

You don’t say? A “poll” huh? Well...THAT tears it...


39 posted on 02/17/2015 5:55:16 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job..)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Back up a minute here. DHS will NOT shut down, as the majority of employees would be deemed as “essential”. But the press runs a poll that ignores that fact.


40 posted on 02/17/2015 5:55:56 PM PST by mtrott
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