Both congressional Democrats and Republicans have demonstrated strong party unity during the partial government shutdown, which has now gone on for 26 days and is the longest shutdown in U.S. history. This level of party discipline echoes what happened in 2017 and 2018, suggesting the midterms didn’t change the broader […] Read more »
Most Border Wall Opponents, Supporters Say Shutdown Concessions Are Unacceptable
With the partial shutdown of the federal government in its third week, both opponents and supporters of expanding the U.S.-Mexico border wall overwhelmingly oppose making concessions to end the stalemate. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majority of Americans (58%) continue to oppose substantially expanding the border wall, […] Read more »
Government Spikes as Key U.S. Problem During Shutdown
As the federal government continues the longest shutdown in its history, Americans are most likely to cite “the government/poor leadership” (29%) as the most important problem facing the country. In fact, January saw a 10-percentage-point increase from December in views of government as the most important problem. CONT. Mohamed Younis, […] Read more »
Why does the GOP persist?
Why do they persist? The evidence is clear: voters oppose a wall, oppose the shutdown, and favor reopening the government without funding the wall, seeing far better ways to protect the border. … And voters are clearly blaming Trump and the GOP for a shutdown few Americans want. Republicans are […] Read more »
Trump has boxed himself in on the shutdown with nowhere to go
New polling indicates that President Donald Trump does not have a winning option to get out of this partial government shutdown, and his position is deteriorating. Let’s start with the most important fact when it comes to gaming out the shutdown: the President is becoming more unpopular. His net approval […] Read more »
How will Trump wishcast the latest polling data?
… Traditionally, in shutdown politics, the party with the eroding poll numbers is the one to make the greater concessions. So, that’s that. The White House will be caving any day now, right? Alas, the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts is now convinced that the answer is no. … […] Read more »