The poll found 39% of Americans blamed Trump and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown, while 33% blamed Democrats in Congress. Another 20% blamed both Democrats and Republicans equally, while 8% said they were not sure.
The poll echoes other recent surveys that also found that more Americans blame Republicans and Trump for the shutdown rather than Democrats.
The poll also found Americans widely disapproved of Trump and lawmakers in Congress when it came to how they were handling the shutdown. Fifty-three percent of Americans disapproved of Trump’s handling of the shutdown, 53% disapproved of congressional Republicans’ handling of the issue and 52% approved of Democrats’ handling of it.
Most Americans in the poll said they were not strongly affected by the shutdown. Just 7% said they were affected a “great deal” by the shutdown, 14% said they were “somewhat” affected, 25% said they were “a little” affected and 54% said they were not affected at all.
More results from the same poll at https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53161-government-shutdown-donald-trump-approval-ice-immigration-economy-doj-justice-department-conversion-therapy-october-10-13-2025-economist-yougov-poll (arc)
39% blame conservatives.
33% blame democrats.
100% of me doesn’t understand my fellow countryman anymore.
Love how you can predict these polls without even looking at the percentages.
Q: Is Donald Trump eating a baby live on CSPAN the fault of the Republicans or the Democrats?
A:
39% Democrats
41% Republicans
12% Both sides are to blame.
8% I don’t know.
You forgot the 3% that will ask “Who’s that?”
doesn’t understand my fellow countryman anymore.
I think they’re heavily propagandized, but basically decent if you can actually get them to see reality. Take this set of findings from the full poll link as an example
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More Americans say they have no confidence at all in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than say they have a great deal of confidence (38% vs. 26%)
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Two-thirds (67%) of Americans think that while making arrests, ICE officers should be required to wear uniforms; 18% say they shouldn’t be required to
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About half (52%) of Americans say ICE officers should not be allowed to wear masks that hide their identities while making arrests and 35% say they should
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Views on anti-ICE protests are split: 40% believe they have mostly been peaceful and 39% believe they have mostly been violent
Like, those first three bullet points tell me large majorities want the right things, but that last one shows that lots of them are living in worlds of disinformation
e; Also, I can find a ton of headlines talking about how the percentage that blame Dems for the shutdown and that blame the GOP moved up and down a few points respectively, but I haven’t seen any headlines focusing specifically on 2/3 of Americans saying ICE officers should be required to wear uniforms
Decent? They’re literally Nazis
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so 33% don’t want healthcare or at least other people to have it?
My guess is 33% don’t know that healthcare is the sticking item, and that the Democrats are trying to save the ACA subsidies. You wouldn’t know that’s the case if you watched conservative media.
Lmfao, there is no trouble for Trump. He’s old, he’s never leaving office, and zero people are doing anything to stop him.
This ludicrous reality would be slightly more tolerable if people would stop acting like this is business as usual
Doesn’t matter. The tick has thoroughly burrowed itself under the skin.
So according to theor numbers more people blame the democrats for the shutdown?
If 33 was bigger than 39 the answer would be “yes,” but it’s not so - no
Combine blame both equally with the democrats and you get over 50% blaming the democrats
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That doesn’t make any sense, either they blame both equally or they blame Dems more, there’s no room for overlap between those two positions with how the questions and possible answers were phrased
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Even if that did make sense (which it does not), combine blame both equally with blame Republicans and you’d get even further over 50%, because 39 is a bigger number than 33
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Let’s assume your horrific understanding of basic logic was correct: combine the numbers that blame both equally with those that blame the Republicans.
Is that number more or less than the number you are saying blame the Democrats?
I’ll help you out. The number is 59 vs 53. Guess which number is larger.
Does.
Not.
Matter.
The next substantial point that will affect the administration is going to be the midterm elections, and what happens with control of the House of Representatives. Right now, there’s a Republican trifecta in place. If the Democratic Party gets control of the House, they get a substantial check on the Executive Branch. Midterms are still a year away, but it’s close enough that things that affect public views do matter.
Presidential popularity tends to affect midterm voting patterns.
EDIT: And to be fair, yes, it is still early. What’s happening in, say, nine months will probably matter more, pound-for-pound, due to proximity to the election. But, on the other hand, a year isn’t that long, either, and what happens will have some impact.
If you look at the polling for the UK general elections, what’s going on is rather eye-opening:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
Political movement does matter, because when you get right up to the elections, there’s already inertia to the situation.
I look at all the insane shit that has happened in just over 9 months and think about what things could still happen in the 13 months before the midterm elections. I don’t have much hope that political momentum is going to matter.
Also, polling doesn’t mean everything, especially not this far away. Trump was losing the polls in two of his three elections. He won both of those times.
Their point is that the midterm elections either won’t happen because Trump declares martial law, or they’re going to be rigged like the presidential election was.
I maintain that popular opinion will find a way to express itself, whether that’s through free and fair elections or some less orderly way
And yet you cared enough about it to share your opinion, curious
Their point wasn’t that they didn’t care. It’s that polls don’t matter to a president that is trying to take over the country as a dictatorship.
If that were true, Trump wouldn’t have mandated all these government agencies putting up messages like "Due to the Democrat Shutdown, we are no longer updating this . . . ". What purpose would that have other than manipulating public opinion?
