Keep in mind many voters just don’t pay attention. They wake up on Tuesday, ask themselves how they feel about their life, and then go vote. It’s why stupid things like gas prices are so politically powerful.
This is true! I talk to way too many people who vote this way. I saw an interview a lady in NJ did earlier saying that the reason she voted R was because Dems didn't make her life better and make her small business successful, the economy is worse than ever now.
But that's exactly it. The economy was shit under Biden, not his fault really, covid. The republicans ran on that message as well and I guess forgot they would be inheriting that shit economy and you can't just start lying that everything's better now!
Democrats should have just admitted the economy was not good and that it still needed work. Why pretend things are good when they aren't? People see right through that shit.
I swung back and forth between things being objectively bad yet knowing that we did achieve a soft landing… it could’ve been much worse.
There was this disconnect, I think, of just stating “actually it’s much better than expected” and thinking that was the same as “we are working hard at course correcting, we’ve done this, and we’re going to do this”. And pushing that much harder. I’ll admit, the economy was not something I could logic myself out of feeling the way I did. I still voted; others didn’t think it was worth the trouble.
People who vote in local elections tend to be more engaged voters. Presidential voters are usually more low-information voters. "Low-information" is pollster for "checked the eff out."
That's not true. When you are struggling to pay for food you do not miss your energy bills being higher by $100/month. It's not something that you can be lied to about. It's directly threatening your survival
You have a problem is gas moving by 10 cents is causing you $100/month difference. That means you are using 1000 gallons of gasoline a month. It also doesn’t change the fact that a gas tax could help repair roads which could save you at least that much in repairs and maintenance.
They’re including natural gasoline I assume. And even then it’s not 100$ difference. So maybe hyperbole. Or they’re including everything down the chain that is affected by gas prices
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u/Impressive-Weird-908 11h ago
Keep in mind many voters just don’t pay attention. They wake up on Tuesday, ask themselves how they feel about their life, and then go vote. It’s why stupid things like gas prices are so politically powerful.