The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that even more Americans disapprove of how the Republicans are handling the budget negotiations. This, combined with evidence that the GOP’s favorability has dropped, suggests that the Republicans are already in trouble for 2014 and maybe beyond. In the New York Times, Jeremy Peters suggests that the Republicans’ hopes of a Senate majority are fading. In the New Republic, John Judis goes even further, suggesting that the Republicans are in their “last days” and “death throes” and that the party could be “cripple(d)” for “not just in the 2014 and 2016 elections, but for decades to come.”
Whoa. This is all too much, too soon. Let’s take a broader look at public opinion and some recent history: [cont.]
John Sides (GWU), Washington Post