{"id":1711091,"date":"2022-10-26T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711091"},"modified":"2022-10-26T06:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:18:47","slug":"95-percent-of-americans-concerned-about-rise-in-food-prices-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/95-percent-of-americans-concerned-about-rise-in-food-prices-ahead-of-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"95 Percent of Americans Concerned About Rise in Food Prices Ahead of Midterms"},"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\">26<\/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%2F95-percent-of-americans-concerned-about-rise-in-food-prices-ahead-of-midterms%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=1711091&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 Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-poll\">poll<\/a> revealed that nearly all Americans are concerned about the rise in the cost of food and consumer goods due to inflation in a worrying sign for Democrats ahead of the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted last week, the poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2022\/10\/20\/midterm-voting-intentions-are-divided-economic-gloom-persists\/\">showed<\/a> that 73 percent are \u201cvery\u201d concerned and 22 percent are \u201csomewhat\u201d concerned about the rise in prices, while a combined 93 percent are \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d concerned by the rise in gasoline. Another 87 percent were similarly concerned about the rise in housing costs, and 70 percent were concerned about \u201chow the stock market is doing,\u201d the Pew poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe survey finds that inflation remains the dominant economic concern for Americans,\u201d Pew pollsters wrote. \u201cIn fact, the three top concerns, among seven items included, relate to prices\u2014for food and consumer goods (73 percent are very concerned about this), gasoline and energy (69 percent), and the cost of housing (60 percent).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since President Joe Biden took office, inflation has been steadily rising, with the consumer price index <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\">hitting<\/a> 8.2 percent year-over-year in September. While Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have often predicted inflation would level out and decrease, it hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices, meanwhile, have dropped more than $1 on average since reaching all-time highs in June, according to AAA data, but the drop has coincided with Biden\u2019s release of oil from the U.S. Strategic Reserve. The oil-producing nations of OPEC+ several weeks ago announced they would slash oil production in what many saw as a blow to Biden\u2019s prospects and would create more pain at the pump in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted fewer than three weeks to go before the November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2022\">2022<\/a> midterms, where Republicans are predicted to at least retake the House.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democratic strategists and pollsters say that the party\u2019s lack of focus on dealing with inflation will likely harm candidates\u2019 prospects in November\u2019s General Election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA month ago, it looked like not only were the Democrats poised to hold the Senate, the question was: were they going to be able to get, you know, two extra seats?\u201d Fernand Amandi, a Democrat pollster who worked on Barack Obama\u2019s presidential campaigns, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3698345-sharp-swing-in-momentum-towards-gop-sparks-democratic-angst\/\">told<\/a> The Hill this week. \u201cNow, I think the hope is just to hang on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation never should have been downplayed,\u201d Mike Lux, a Democrat strategist, told the outlet, adding that lower-income Americans are getting hammered by high prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking-class folks are getting hit hard by inflation,\u201d he said, \u201cand we need to make clear that we understand what is going on, we know that people are having a tough time and we are with them in this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pew Research Center poll revealed that nearly all Americans are concerned about the rise in the cost of food and consumer goods due to inflation in a worrying sign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711091","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}