“There’s a reason White House chief of staff Ron Klain checks AAA’s survey of gas prices every single morning,” Politico reports.
“For all the well-informed punditry about whether this or that issue will be the terrain upon which 2022 rises and falls, today — with 19 days left until Election Day — it seems that the most salient issue in the election for most voters could be pretty straightforward: It’s the gas prices, stupid.”
“Look closely at so many of the metrics people have suggested are determinative in the campaign — from inflation rates to President Joe Biden’s approval number — and it becomes clear: Gas rules everything around me. As prices went down in the summer, Democrats’ fortunes improved to the extent that it seemed like they could buck history and hold onto power this November. Now that they’ve inched back upward, polls have tilted in the GOP’s favor.”
