{"id":1619715,"date":"2022-08-23T07:01:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619715"},"modified":"2022-08-23T07:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:01:33","slug":"suffering-index-hits-highest-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suffering-index-hits-highest-in-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Suffering Index&#8221; Hits Highest In Its History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuffering-index-hits-highest-in-its-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democrats are trying to deny reality in order to win the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>In the land of alternate \u201cfacts\u201d that Democrats would like to sell people, inflation is transitory and<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/07\/29\/ny-post-delivers-the-perfect-takedown-of-bidens-recession-denialism-n603811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> we aren\u2019t in a recession.<\/a> While Vladimir Putin was responsible for gas prices going up, Joe Biden is <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/07\/22\/they-think-were-stupid-white-house-puts-out-exciting-video-about-gas-prices-n599819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">somehow responsible <\/a>for them going down a little bit. It isn\u2019t just that the demand dropped because the gas became so expensive. You should consider that<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/08\/20\/charles-payne-goes-to-town-on-cnn-for-its-state-media-take-on-gas-prices-n614945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a \u201craise\u201d to your paycheck<\/a>, even if it\u2019s still costing you far more for gas than when Joe Biden started his term.<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom line? Try as the Democrats might, they can\u2019t change the objective reality of how badly Joe Biden\u2019s economy is affecting the American public.<\/p>\n<p>We saw at the beginning of the month<a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/08\/01\/that-70s-show-behold-the-return-of-the-misery-index-and-the-red-wave-n486541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the \u201cmisery index.\u201d<\/a> That was stacking up to bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new study by Bloomberg Economics takes one gauge with a knack of predicting ballot outcomes \u2014 the misery index, calculated by adding up the inflation and unemployment rates \u2014 and projects it forward through election day.<\/p>\n<p>The result: Based on past voting patterns, President Joe Biden\u2019s party can expect to lose 30 to 40 seats in the House and a few in the Senate too, easily wiping out razor-thin Democratic majorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now comes the \u201csuffering index\u201d and that\u2019s at record highs. It\u2019s worse than it ever was under the pandemic, which is saying something.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Suffering index. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ywPKPbYSN2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/ywPKPbYSN2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickaramaOG\/status\/1561743984107687941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives poorly enough to be considered \u201csuffering\u201d on Gallup\u2019s Life Evaluation Index was 5.6% in July, the highest since the index\u2019s inception in 2008. This exceeds the previous high of 4.8% measured in April and is statistically higher than all prior estimates in the COVID-19 era. Across extensive measurement since January 2008, the suffering percentage has reached 4.5% or higher on a handful of occasions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was 3.9 percent when Biden came into office and as Ed Morrissey at HotAir <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/08\/22\/wrong-direction-on-steroids-gallup-hits-new-all-time-high-in-suffering-index-n491377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">observes<\/a>, it\u2019s the steepest ascent in the history of measuring it.<\/p>\n<p>That fits with how many Americans think we\u2019re going in the \u201cwrong direction\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/direction_of_country-902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Clear Politics average<\/a>: 22.9 percent think \u201cright track\u201d and 70.9 think \u201cwrong track\u201d in polls over the past month.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Americans\u2019 real disposable personal income has plummeted continuously for 18 months in a row and it\u2019s getting worse. Even Walmart and Target are indicating that people are cutting back on discretionary items.<\/p>\n<p>So people know exactly where they can trace all this suffering \u2014 and it isn\u2019t Republicans. Democrats can say what they might, but they can\u2019t argue with the hit that people are having on their wallets. The problem is that it was all avoidable, had Republicans been in charge. People know that because they can remember what things were like under President Donald Trump. That\u2019s what the Republicans need to stress again and again when it comes to the midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are trying to deny reality in order to win the midterms. 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