I was listening to 538 podcast about shutdown end, and they made it sound like their opinion is that on balance, Democrats didn't really win anything meaningful (compared to not having started shutdown)(leaving aside their main opinion that shutdowns don't really seem to matter much in the big scheme of political things long term). (politics.stackexchange.com)
«School funding is the most political thing that we do, and it's not necessarily Republican or Democrat, it's all politics is local,» Corman said. (washingtonpost.com)