Government Shutdown Archives

Two Polls That Ended the Shutdown and May Prevent Another

In the wake of the federal government shutdown, it was clear to most pundits and political leaders that the Republican...

Fox News was hoaxed by a satire story claiming President Barack Obama was going to "pay out his own pocket...

Two new polls suggest Republicans are more likely than President Obama and the Democrats to be blamed by the American...

UPDATE: 10/4/2013 9:55 PM EST: A new CBS News poll, conducted in the two days immediately after the shutdown, finds...

A recent article from "Congressional news site" The Hill claims that voters are more likely to trust the Democratic Party...

Last week I blogged about the ABC/Washington Post poll on the sequester, citing with approval Matthew Yglesias’ characterization of the...

Two recent polls come to contradictory conclusions about the public’s willingness to accept spending cuts imposed by the sequestration that...

Fox News claimed that plagiarizing two sentences -- or 50 words -- from a Politico story on the sequestration was...

After being called out by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, New York Times' conservative columnist David Brooks added a "postscript"...