{"id":12625,"date":"2013-10-12T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T10:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12625"},"modified":"2013-10-12T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T10:18:48","slug":"republicans-under-pressure-to-back-down-on-us-financial-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12625","title":{"rendered":"Republicans under pressure to back down on US financial shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/10\/10\/20903624-nbcwsj-poll-shutdown-debate-damages-gop?lite\">NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll<\/a> shows that by a 22-point margin (53 per cent to 31 per cent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama \u2013 a wider margin of blame for the Republicans than the party received in the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96.<\/p>\n<p>Republican opposition to agreeing a budget unless Obama&#8217;s health care legislation is halted has boomeranged on them. The health-care law has become more popular since the shutdown began. Thirty-eight per cent see the Affordable Care Act (or \u201cObamacare\u201d) as a good idea, versus 43 per cent who see it as a bad idea \u2013 up from 31 per cent good idea, 44 per cent bad idea last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the Republican Party will pay an electoral price for its blackmail tactics. The poll reveals that\u00a0one year until next autumn\u2019s mid-term elections, American voters prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress to a Republican-controlled one by eight per centage points (47 per cent to 39 per cent), up from the Democrats\u2019 three-point advantage last month (46 per cent to 43 per cent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll shows that by a 22-point margin (53 per cent to 31 per cent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama \u2013 a wider margin of blame for the Republicans than the party received in the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}