Dan Judy’s comments on the political effects of the government shutdown in US News and World Report:
At this point it’s impossible to know who will get the blunt of the blame for congressional gridlock. Both sides are forging ahead with independent messaging strategies. Republicans have been pushing mini-funding bills in what they say is an attempt to ease the pain of the government shutdown, while Democrats have been blasting Republicans for trying to dismantle Obamacare, a bill they argue was passed more than 3 years ago and has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
“No one is going to come out of this looking good,” says GOP pollster Dan Judy.
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Republican pollsters on the other hand are not so sure that the shutdown of 2013 will look anything like those of the 1990s.
“It still might end up killing us in 2014, but it is becoming harder and harder to predict because the old rules just don’t apply anymore,” Judy says.
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