A poll can be bullshit.
Polls (plural) not so much.
By a 22-point margin (53 percent to 31 percent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama re NBC/WSJ poll
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/...
Overall, 62 percent mainly blamed Republicans for the shutdown. About half said Obama or the Democrats in Congress bear much responsibility. re AP/GfK poll
http://ap-gfkpoll.com/...
Seventy percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll disapprove of how the Republicans in Congress are handling the budget negotiations, up 7 percentage points from a week ago. Far fewer, 51 percent, disapprove of Obama’s approach, essentially unchanged in the past week. re ABC News/Washington Post
http://www.langerresearch.com/...
Thirty-eight percent of Americans said Republicans were to blame for the shutdown, versus 30 percent who blame the Obama administration and 19 percent who blame both, according to the Pew poll, which was conducted in the days since the shutdown came to pass. - re Pew Poll
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/...
... the Republican Party is now viewed favorably by 28% of Americans, down from 38% in September. This is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992. re Gallup Polling
http://www.gallup.com/...
I believe this is the point in the conversation where someone from the GOP plays the "Republicans are the victim of MSM" card.