It's still the economy, stupid, voters tell pollsters

NPR and Marist polled people who said they "definitely plan to vote," on Warmonger Joe, the generic national Congressional ballot and the midterms. There are wake-up calls for #BlueAnon still here, per the header. And, note that "definitely" in the quote above. Per full poll data, that's 1,293 people, so this is statistically pretty strong.

Here's the biggie:

Inflation (37%) is top of mind for Americans as they prepare to cast their ballot for the midterms. Preserving democracy (27%), abortion (13%), immigration (12%), and health care (10%) follow. Inflation is the motivating issue for Republicans (52%) while nearly one in three Democrats (32%) cite preserving democracy. Inflation (22%) and abortion (21%) follow among Democrats.

Sadly, the graf doesn't list people self-identified as independents, but I venture inflation is No. 1 with them, too.

A later graf pretty much confirms that:

While a majority of Democrats (52%) perceive the nation to be moving in the right direction, 91% of Republicans and 71% of independents say the country is off track.

Get your attention yet, DNC? Warmongers in the House and Senate, including The Squad The Fraud?

That leads to this graf, which appeared earlier in the story:

Among registered voters nationally, the Democrats running for Congress (46%) have a narrow two-point edge over the Republicans (44%). Four points separated the Democrats (48%) and Republicans (44%) last month. In June, immediately following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, the Democrats (48%) led the Republicans (41%) by 7 points among registered voters. Among Americans who say they definitely plan to vote, the Democrats (48%) are currently +3 percentage points over the Republicans (45%).

The rise of inflation, though it has now "moderated" but not gone away, is the main explainer for that.

So, it's still the economy, stupid, and it remains personal, though Kroger DID earlier this month partially roll back massive price increases of earlier this year on its generic DiGiornio pizza and a few other things. 

And, that drop in gas prices MBS Joe was touting earlier? I told you earlier this week to wave bye-bye to it, and as my graph on West Texas Intermediate in the lower part of the right hand rail shows, it's already disappearing.

Once again, feel free to hit the polls, speaking of polling, at the top of the right hand rail.