Democrats’ Narrative Blaming Putin For Surging Gas Prices Appears To Be Working: POLL

Daily Caller ^ | 04/12/2022 | Thomas Catenacci

[AnthonySoprano]

President Joe Biden and Democrats’ attempt to blame the nationwide gasoline price hike on Russia appears to be working, according to the latest polling data.

The majority of Americans surveyed primarily pinned high gasoline prices on Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the poll released Sunday by ABC News. A whopping 71% of respondents blamed Putin “a great deal” for the high costs at the pump while another 68% blamed Big Oil for the prices, echoing another Democratic talking point.

“Because of the actions we’ve taken to address Putin — the Putin price hike, we are in a better place than we were last month,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a press briefing Monday ahead of the government’s monthly inflation report. “But we expect March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin’s price hike.”

The Department of Labor reported Tuesday that total inflation hit 8.5% in March, a new 40-year high. Excluding volatile energy and food prices, inflation still soared 6.5%, the quickest pace since 1982.

But the White House has repeatedly pointed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

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Russian oil and petroleum imports represented just 2% of total U.S. supplies in 2021, according to Energy Information Administration data.

[AnthonySoprano]

They do it - because it works. And Ukraine has already opened the Spending spigot, after they hit a 48 vote limit in the Senate.

“Russian oil and petroleum imports represented just 2% of total U.S. supplies in 2021, according to Energy Information Administration data.“

[metmom]

If they are lied to continually, I would expect no less.

[AnthonySoprano]

[mikelets456]

Democrats…everything is a crisis and everything is everyone else’s fault.
I guess only Democrats can get away with this lie.

[EinNYC]

Americans have been steadily dumbed down by the libtards insinuating themselves into our education systems and media, quelling inquiry and proofs, building reliance on emotions and optics. If the media states something, they are too mentally lazy to ask questions, so the abuse and breaking of our laws continues.

[Williams]

I don’t believe the poll, lots of people know Biden destroyed our energy options.

But I don’t underestimate the corrosive effect of the leftist media.

If we had an honest press I doubt Biden would still be in office.

[cowboyusa]

It’s not working at all. Biden is dispised, and soare the Democrats.

[FlipWilson]

Yah. Sure it is working.

Not really getting that sense.

But if the Daily Caller says it, it must be so.

Or not.

[econjack]

Where the hell is the GOP with the truth about the XL pipeline, restricted oil leases on federal land and offshore, all done within 3 hours after taking office.

WAKE UP you dunderheads!

[mikelets456]

From the poll…headlines are a bit misleading:

“ Although the public appears open to Democratic arguments, they are more likely to place a “great deal” or a “good amount” of blame for the price increases on Democratic party policies (52%) and Biden (51%) than on Republican party policies (33%) and former President Donald Trump (24%). A strong majority of Americans (68%) also disapproves of the way Biden is handling gas prices.”

[freespirit2012]

No one really believes it, they just parrot that answer, so they have some way to respond. Either way, Biden still is responsible because of his weakness Russia invaded the Ukraine.

[escapefromboston]

I doubt it , but we shall see how the Mid-Terms pan out.

[kenmcg]

Too many of the American electorate have been brainwashed by the main stream media. The msm is one of the biggest problems in the country.

[GaryCrow]

Democrats tell BS like this because there's a significant portion of the U.S. population that's dumb enough to believe them. They do it because it works.

It's kind of like an abused wife with two black eyes and the guy telling her "I did it because you made me do it".

[Williams]

Thank you.

Yes the headline is misleading.
But the media does fool a lot of people.

Maybe the worst example was Benghazi, though Hillary did lose the presidential election.

But they pretty much got away with outrageous lies to avoid public anger over that disaster.

[Who is John Galt?]

Article: "A whopping 71% of respondents blamed Putin 'a great deal' for the high costs at the pump while another 68% blamed Big Oil for the prices, echoing another Democratic talking point."

It looks like 2/3 of Americans are complete morons. Guess that fits - seems like 2/3 of the people I meet, want the US to attack Russia. So, by next year we'll probably have a brand new Democrat-controlled Congress in DC, and/or be searching for food in the radioactive ruins of our former neighborhoods...

(\sarc ;>)

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Did they ask only people who have not bought any gasoline in the past year?

[gundog]

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” -H. L. Mencken.

[Zathras]

Because the GOP-e just sits there waiting for the RATS to throw $$$ at them.

[Political Junkie Too]

This is psyops.

It is a poll of 530 adults with no party affiliation disclosed, used by the LAAP-dog media to gaslight Americans into thinking that others are blaming Putin instead of Biden.

-PJ