A majority of Utahns don’t believe it was worth shutting down the federal government to fight President Barack Obama’s new health care law and most blame Republicans just as much as Democrats, according to a new Deseret News/KSL poll.
Nearly half of the Utahns surveyed also disapprove of the tea party’s influence on the shutdown that began Tuesday, and more than one-third disapprove of Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a leader in the battle that led to the budget impasse. [cont.]
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News