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With the government shutdown over and having narrowly escaped default on our debt, Democrats were well-poised to make significant gains in public opinion and perhaps the 2014 elections. But the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act website found less than 10% of the 19 million people who tried signing up were successful. So we hit the streets to ask your friends and neighbors: Have Republicans hurt their brand with their relentless, yet unsuccessful attempts to defund Obamacare, or have Democrats proven that the government isn’t capable of doing anything right with their less-than-impressive roll-out of healthcare.gov?