Polls don t lie. VA race began close. With a bad economy the GOP should have an edge. Now they are 5 to 10 points short. Gap widen during and after shutdown.
Here is the irony. The shutdown came at a price in VA just to unfund Obamacare. If the GOP did not bring the shutdown and Debt Limit (which pisses off powerful people on Wall Street), Obamacare issue will come at no political damage to GOP. In fact I will argue that Obamacare is so bad, Dems are actually asking Congress to pass delay. In other words Obamacare will give the GOP the upper hand in the negotiation because the longer it takes for the Dems to get the delay, the more political damage is done on the Dems in the 2014 elections. Even the VA race would be affected. The GOP attempt to shutown gov and debt limit wounded the GOP and the Obamacare fiasco wounded the Dems. Both parties enter 2014 wounded. If the shutdown did not occur, the Dems would be the only ones entering 2014 politically wounded.
There is nothing wrong being principled, but being blind to tactical political reality will make the movement a short one.
Polls don’t lie?
With the architect of the Clinton campaigns involved in a carpetbagger race?
OK
You are forgetting one MAJOR element of the shutdown! NOTHING THE
PUBBIES COULD HAVE DONE TO AVOID IT!!! OBAMA WANTED THIS SHUTDOWN AND THE DAMNED GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN NO MATTER WHAT! Our messaging was terrible ALL DEMS out there saying WE shut the ENTIRE government down NOT TRUE very little of Gov. was shut down!!