{"id":1622964,"date":"2022-08-26T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622964"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:34:52","slug":"voters-worry-about-gas-prices-crime-while-mainstream-media-frets-about-climate-change-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-worry-about-gas-prices-crime-while-mainstream-media-frets-about-climate-change-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Worry About Gas Prices, Crime While Mainstream Media Frets About Climate Change: Poll"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fvoters-worry-about-gas-prices-crime-while-mainstream-media-frets-about-climate-change-poll%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=1622964&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--><p>A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that while rising prices and living costs are some of the biggest midterm concerns for American voters, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mainstream-media\">mainstream media<\/a> continues to fret over climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/august_2022\/inflation_crime_still_top_concerns_for_voters\">poll<\/a>, conducted Aug. 17\u201318, found rising gas prices to be the number one voter issue for the midterm elections, with 92 percent of respondents saying they were concerned and 68 percent saying they were \u201cvery concerned.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-economy\">economy<\/a> in general was the next major issue, with 91 percent saying they were concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Violent crime, energy policy, and inflation rounded out the top five most worrying issues for voters.<\/p>\n<p>None of the top five voter concerns were listed in Rasmussen\u2019s roundup of the mainstream media\u2019s top five issues for the midterms, indicating that major media houses are largely ignorant about the priorities of most voters. The top concern for mainstream media was climate change, followed by the war in Ukraine, the Jan. 6 investigation, COVID-19, and LGBTQ issues.<\/p>\n<p>The list of top issues reported by American voters are problems that are impacting their present-day lives. Gas prices, though down from their peak in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">remain elevated<\/a> at a national average of $3.88 per gallon as of Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Annual inflation in July came in at 8.5 percent, close to the four-decade high of 9.1 percent registered in June. Annual inflation has remained above 7 percent throughout 2022.\u00a0Americans are paying more for food, shelter, and other daily necessities. An Aug. 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/inflation-costing-average-american-households-717-a-month-gop-committee-says_4661162.html\">report<\/a> by the Joint Economic Committee Republicans found that Americans are spending about $717 more per month due to inflation.<\/p>\n<p> Defining a \u2018Recession\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)\u00a0in the second quarter fell by 0.9 percent, following a 1.6 percent decline in the first quarter. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth is generally accepted as the benchmark to declare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that while rising prices and living costs are some of the biggest midterm concerns for American voters, the mainstream media continues to fret over climate change. The poll, conducted Aug. 17\u201318, found rising gas prices to be the number one voter issue for the midterm elections, with 92 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}