Every time I’m in the supermarket, I look at how prices have tripled over the past 4 years and can’t believe it wasn’t a campaign issue. Food shopping during the Bush years cost half of what it does today.
Actually, I am starting to think that NOTHING was a campaign issue for Romney. We’re in a state that was guaranteed to go a majority for him so saw absolutely no TV/radio ads or mailings from the campaign and can only wonder what they were doing in the rest of the country (besides making the consultants richer).
“I look at how prices have tripled over the past 4 years and can’t believe it wasn’t a campaign issue.”
I agree; my town lost its Pathmark a few years after Wal-Mart opened up, and though some people said it was part of a bankruptcy restructuring the Pathmark had become a ghost town. Wal-Mart was killing them on prices, and no matter how unpleasant the Wal-Mart was (sandwiched between NEwark and Jersey City - you can imagine), people had no choice because of the inflation.
In the year leading up to the 2012 election the “media” would insert into any news stories on the economy: “Thankfully we don’t have inflation”.