The threat of a partial government shutdown, and its potential political impacts, may not resonate unless it actually happens.
At the start of the month, 61 percent of likely Republican primary voters had either heard nothing or heard very little about the prospects of a government shutdown, according to a recent survey from Echelon Insights. The poll was conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 4 by Republican Main Street Partnership and Women2Women.
And the polling firm Navigator Research found similar results in a new survey of registered voters conducted within the last week, according to pollster Bryan Bennett.
