Americans *Want* This Government Shutdown

Probably more accurately, they want government workers to go back to work but would be happy if nothing else gets done.  From Pew:

As was the case a year ago, a majority of Democrats (70%) want their party’s leaders to “stand up” to Trump this year, even if it means less gets done in Washington; just 26% want them to try as best they can to work with Trump, even if it means disappointing some groups of Democratic supporters. A year ago, 63% of Democrats wanted their party’s leaders to stand up to the president. Among Republicans, the share saying Trump should stand up to Democrats has increased from 40% a year ago to 51% currently.

Yet,

Seven-in-ten Americans now say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in this country, while only about (26%) say that they are satisfied.

Public dissatisfaction with the state of the nation is higher than at any point in the past year, and it has increased 9 percentage points since September (when 61% of adults said they were dissatisfied).

Even though

Overall, Americans’ views of the current state of the national economy are little changed since a year ago. About half of adults (51%) rate national economic conditions as excellent (11%) or good (39%), while 49% characterize economic conditions as only fair (35%) or poor (14%)...

Six-in-ten adults now say there are plenty of jobs available in their local community – the highest share recorded since the question was first asked in 2001. Just a third say that jobs are difficult to find...

In both parties, views of local job opportunities are among the most positive as at any point in the last two decades.

We're not in any new wars, the economy is humming along, why is "orange man bad"? Because he doesn't give in to your leftie temper tantrums?

Anyway, when we return to school next week I'm going to have my stats students take a look at the methodology for this poll as listed on page 4 of the article.  Just so happens that we're studying confidence intervals for population proportions right now.