Purple Colorado is clearly blue about the idea of shutting down the government to defund Planned Parenthood—55 percent of Colorado voters oppose it. Additionally, a majority oppose defunding Planned Parenthood at all.
Via PPP:
Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose (a government shutdown)- 72% of them oppose it, compared to only 23% who say support the idea. And it has opposition from critical independent voters- 55% are in opposed to 38% in favor. Overall 52% of voters oppose defunding Planned Parenthood whether or not a government shutdown is in play.
A vote to shut down the government is also far more likely to place a representative's seat in jeopardy than a vote against the shutdown.
48% of voters say they’d be less likely to vote to re-elect those who stage a government shutdown, including 66% of Democratic voters and 52% of Independents. Just 35% of voters say they’d be more likely.
At least 50 percent of voters also agreed that a willingness to vote for a shutdown would demonstrate that Congressional Republicans are "too extreme" and "out of touch with the needs and concerns of women today" and "put partisan politics ahead of what's best for the country."
And let's not forget this one...
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—10-2-10: One Nation Working Together:
A week from today, hundreds of thousands of Americans will join each other in Washington, D.C., in a demonstration organized by One Nation Working Together to renew the effort to build a movement, a grassroots movement, that is not dependent solely on supporting a political party to obtain its goals, but that also recognizes the need to elect effective progressive leaders at every level of government. [...]
The usual suspects among media pundits will no doubt categorize what happens in Washington on 10-2-10 and afterward as class warfare. In fact, the dozens of organizations in the coalition of One Nation Working Together are engaged in self-defense for rank-and-file Americans, the majority of our population, who, for more than three decades, have been the target of an elite dedicated to an upward transfer of wealth that makes the Gilded Age look like practice.
This has been achieved by destruction of progressive taxation, union busting, over-militarizing the economy, off-shoring jobs and, as always, dividing us against ourselves in every possible way. While pushing the fakery that the middle class isn't working class, that the interests of educated professionals have nothing in common with clerks or factory workers or burger flippers, they have, for tens of millions of Americans, punctured the dream that our children will have a life at least a little better than our own. They have lined us up against each other by generation, race, gender, ableness and orientation. They have shackled us to fossil fuel and undermined every effort to adopt clean energy. They have allowed our infrastructure—both physical and social—to rot.
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