Commentary
The top issue going into the midterm elections is the economy, with inflation and the increasing costs of everything tightly coupled. In fact, an early October poll from Monmouth University indicated that 82 percent of those polled considered inflation to be a “very important” issue.
Even Democrat-friendly NBC News has highlighted that fact. On Oct. 18, NBC elections analyst Steve Kornacki stated this on “The Today Show”: “Add the economy and inflation together, that is 44 percent. We are getting close to half of all respondents saying that’s their top issue. Nothing else even cracks 10 percent right now.”
The elephant in the room that the media pollsters avoid in their various questions is the R-word: recession….