Imagine if you threw a party and no one came. Pretty humiliating, right? 

Well, imagine if you represented the party of big government, lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, then demanded a federal shutdown to impose your welfare-state agenda on the nation — and no one seemed to care much.  

In that scenario, you’ve become your own worst enemy: You’ve inadvertently made your adversaries’ case that there really isn’t a meaningful voter constituency for a big-government leviathan.

The Obamacare premium subsidies which you have made the central issue in your shutdown stand aren’t beloved the way you thought.  

You are hoisted with your own petard. 

This is what the Democrats have done to themselves.

The AP-NORC poll last week reported that 54% of voters either have no opinion about or outright oppose extending the subsidies, and a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 61% of voters know little to nothing about them.

There is no organic street energy on the issue. 

The markets have gone up since the shutdown started.

The average voter seems to be pretty “meh” about the whole Washington........

© New York Post