No wonder there’s a shutdown: New poll shows how much Republicans and Democrats really disagree on immigration

This past weekend, the partial shutdown affecting a quarter of the federal government became the longest on record. …

Why is there such difficulty finding a path forward? The roots of the shutdown can be traced to the fraught issue of immigration. A new GW Politics Poll shows just how hard it will be to reopen the government if that depends on a bipartisan immigration compromise. CONT.

Kimberly Gross & John Sides (GWU), Monkey Cage