> Dems appear to be more motivated to show up <
Most of my friends are conservative pensioners - birds of a feather flock together. Some of them are grumbling about gas prices and inflation at the grocery store.
I’m not here to say who’s right and who’s wrong. But I am reporting that they’re blaming Trump. Not white-hot Democrat blame. More like disappointment blame.
How will this affect the November elections? None of my friends would think of voting Democrat. But some might stay home.
Looks like I’ve got some persuasion work ahead of me.
This is how I feel and I worry that inflation and high gas prices will keep Republicans home on the mid terms and the radicals on the left will takeover states and federal elections.
I predict we’ll be controlled by communists. Sadly I’m more concerned about the state. PA is hanging by a thread
Its hard not to blame Trump for the gas spike... he bombed Iran... caused instability in the markets and prices went up. There is no spin for that.. the question is do folks feel like it was worth it?... THAT is the real key here...
Gas prices will drop back down quickly once this situation ends... because Trump has driven down high gas prices twice already.. so they will drop down again once this is over.
The question is, when will it be over, and how will it end. If this drags on into late summer and early autumn.. and it ends with nothing really changing... there is little doubt the GOP will get lambasted. IF this comes to an end and Iran is truly neutured from being any sort of international creator of chaos as a result, and prices return to their pre war highs, the calculus is, was the IRAN action and a few months of high gas prices worth it? For most, if it concludes with than end result, and does so during the summer, I think the gas price issue will be forgotten by most people.. though dems will still try to hammer it, but if prices are back down to $2.50 a gallon and iran is completely neutured one way or another... That will be considered a win by most folks and by November will not play into their calculus.
We shall see