More Americans are struggling economically than felt that way at the prior midterm elections four years ago. Most say President Joe Biden has not been paying attention to their most important concerns as inflation continues to be the top issue in this cycle, according to the latest national Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll. Republicans continue to hold a slight edge in preference for congressional control.
Republicans maintain a slight edge in preference for party control of Congress. Currently, 40% of
Americans say they want the GOP in charge and another 9% have no initial preference but lean toward
Republican control. Democratic control is preferred by 35% with another 10% leaning toward the Democrats. Last month, 47% preferred or leaned toward the GOP and 44% favored the Democrats. …
Monmouth asked about the importance of nine issue areas for the federal government to address in
each of its last two polls. There has been little overall change in the priority attached to these issues, except that the number of people who rate inflation as extremely important has increased from 37% in September to 46% in the current poll. This is due mainly to large jumps among Republicans (from 46% to 65%) and Democrats (from 23% to 36%), while independents’ opinion on this priority has remained stable (from 41% to 42%). Republicans’ concerns about immigration (from 46% to 58%) along with elections and voting issues (from 37% to 49%) have also increased from last month.
“Inflation has become even more front and center than it already was. On one hand, the partisan shift on this issue could result in more enthusiastic Republicans and less motivated Democrats. On the other hand, the effect of this issue may be capped among more persuadable voters,” said Murray.
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