People remember the 1995 government shutdown, when DemocRATS won the PR battle hands-down. We thought it would happen again, but it’s something different. Republicans are certainly damaged by it, but Democrats aren’t coming out of it unscathed this time. There is a widespread attitude of “a pox on both their houses” and I think that it’ll do more damage to Obama and Harry Reid than to Republicans.
I’m hearing more and more DemoRATs voicing dislike for the One! I don’t believe the Republicans are losing this PR battle. Everyone I talk to is big-time angry and not at the GOP.