“Economic considerations are rarely eclipsed as a top priority for voters in elections,” says Costas Panagopoulos, political science professor at Northeastern University. What, among these issues, will matter most to voters? It’s likely to be the impact on their wallets. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University and Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Portraits of Costas Panagopoulos, political science professor at Northeastern University and Rory Smead, associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern. 6 attack on the Capitol that may well amount to criminal conspiracy, states restrict or outlaw abortion access, and hate crimes skyrocket, all while inflation reaches its highest point in decades. 8, high-profile gun violence makes headlines again and again, a Congressional committee investigates the Jan. If not, it doesn’t.īut this year, with a veritable bingo-card of polarizing issues on the table, might the midterms be viewed as a litmus test for voters’ morals, instead?Īs the U.S. If citizens approve of the job the president is doing, his party typically fares well. Find her here on Facebook. Or at Three White Lions her book on Amazon Kindle Vella.Midterm elections-those which occur near the midpoint of a president’s four-year term in the United States-are typically viewed by policymakers as a referendum on the president’s party. Christie’s Mueller Report Adventures In Bite-Sizes a real-life compelling spy mystery (in progress). Written in her own unique style with a twist of humor in a briefer version of Bipartisan Report.
Gloria Christie Report her newsletters are for people on the go. In Gloria Christie Reports & Three White LionsSubstack newsletters, Gloria Christie includes her week’s most important news/ commentary stories in the liberal online newspaper The Bipartisan Report. Then, President Biden’s agenda would race the polls to the top. Second, Dems need to fight like hell to keep the House. That would take care of Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who frequently vote against their own president and with the Republicans. So what Americans need to do would be bring in two additional Senate seats and keep the current ones. (It’s a major reason why President Joe Biden‘s approval rating is so low.)’īut an analysis by CNN’s Harry Enten showed that Dems can keep the Senate. ‘It would be tough for Democrats to hang on to such a small edge when the economy is such an important issue to voters, who see it as weak. That has always been Congress’ problem to solve: Of course, there has been little he could do. The Gallup Poll was taken prior to the Supreme Court’s decision to “overturn Roe.” But Democratic voters still believed the economy was President Biden’s biggest fault. This was higher than Gallup has measured in any midterm or presidential election year going back to at least 1992.’ In May, Gallup found that 27% of Americans said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their views on abortion. ‘And while abortion is not the most important issue on voters’ minds, it’s clearly more important than it has been in any recent election. Last week’s Pew Research Center Poll indicated that “57 percent of Americans disapproved of the decision:” Wade with an uber-conservative vote, Democrats moved three points ahead. Truman’s Democratic Party lost both the House and the Senate in the midterms.’Īfter SCOTUS killed Roe v. The only president with such a low approval rating at this point in their first term was Harry Truman in 1946. ‘Biden, who is at the low point of his presidency, has an approval rating of 38% by comparison.
In fact, no other president has reached 38 percent “at this point in their first term was President Harry Truman in 1946,” according to CNN: President Biden has reached an all-time low. But look at the difference in the Democrats’ move with 50 percent going to the Republicans and 43 percent to Democrats in May, which was a seven-point difference. ‘If the elections for Congress were held today, would you vote for the Democratic or Republican Party?’įive-Thirty-Eight averages recent polls and came out with nearly the same, with a one-point lead. Republicans led registered voters 48 percent to 46 percent, which was in the margin of error. The Monmouth University Poll showed what happened when the vote was not specific, just generic. Both American women and men did not like that. Under the United Nation’s (UN) definition, forced birthing is a war crime. Wade and stole women’s right to control their own bodies.
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned Roe v.
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