Amy Walter:
Well, we haven’t seen a whole lot of polling on this, but the one poll that has come out recently from Quinnipiac last week showed that overwhelmingly majority of Americans do not like what they are seeing for what’s happening in Washington, D.C., with the federal enforcement there and federal troops there.
Now, not surprisingly, Republicans very support in this poll, very, very supportive of it. Democrats hate it, but it’s independence that break probably about 60 percent — I think the number was 61 percent against it.
And what that says to me is, this feels very familiar. It feels like the first term too, where the president does things, takes actions that galvanize the base, that anger the opposition, but also really aren’t appealing to the folks who are independent-leaning.
And that becomes a problem politically in the future, because if those voters don’t believe that what the president’s doing is actually helping them or dealing with the issues that they think are important, or if they think that he’s doing something that they find that is out of bounds, those are the folks who could turn out and vote against Republicans next time around.
Or they’re the ones who maybe voted for a Republican in the last election, but feel less excited or less interested in doing it now.