CBS: Gas Prices Now A Big Factor In Presidential Election (77% Think Most Important)

WCCO-TV ^ | 3-7-12 | Esme Murphy

[tcrlaf]

It might be one of the biggest issues in the upcoming presidential election. Last night, CBS News exit polls found 77 percent of those voting in seven Super Tuesday states say rising gas prices were an important factor in their vote.

The poll reflects growing consumer anxiety as gas prices have risen nearly 50 cents a gallon in just over two months.

Consumers have been telling us they are cutting corners because for most driving is a necessity.

In Minnesota the average price is 3-58. The current national average for a gallon of regular is 3-76, but some analysts are predicting that gas could rise to $5 by the summer.

[tcrlaf]

DUH.... Why do you think Democrats are DESPERATE to make this about FREE SH*T!, and Social issues? Talk about ANYTHING but the economy?

[Freddd]

Highest gas prices ever for Feb....media silent.

Corrupt media.

[Hotlanta Mike]

How about 9.1% unemployment? How about $16 trillion in debt?

[goseminoles]

I drive a distance to work. It costs me 1/4 of my income to go to work.

[dragnet2]

These are just some of the reasons/excuses I've heard in the past two weeks, why gas prices are quite suddenly burning up your income.

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Iran is going to take over the world.

The refineries need maintenance

The speculators are doing it

We're running out of oil

We have plenty

Americans are driving less, so we need to raise prices

The Chinese have millions of mopeds to fuel

There is a leak in a pipe in Moose Jaw Alaska

A rodent chewed through a line at the main pump station in Texas.

Demand is down but we are producing more however, our refineries have been and are being shut down

Prices will go to 6.75, but 3 days before the election, Obama will lower prices to 1.40 to ensure reelection

A school of endangered blowfish have been sucked into a pipe, and it takes time to get them out.

Iran has nukes

Unstable markets worldwide.

A big refinery fire

A small refinery fire

A refinery fire could possibly happen

New gas additives are being developed to make Americans even more stupid

They forgot to build a pipe

They don’t like pipes

Rich liberals want the price even higher.

Obama hates the oil industry

The oil industry hates Obama and are hoping this kills his reelection

Liberals want everyone ridding donkeys and bicycles to work as a sacrifice for the planet

We moved more armaments to the gulf because Iran is taking over the world

Wild money printing and massive deficits

Americans love high gas prices

Refinery margins are tight…They hardly make any money at all.

The masses have no idea how free market works.

It is being exported because we are making more than we use.

Demand has fallen

We need refinery upgrades and expansion

We are making more than we use so we have to sell it to the Chinese, (They have 1 billion mopeds to fuel , and need to go to work so they can send us more Communist products .

We have plenty of oil, so much so, we need to sell it abroad to keep prices low.

We have plenty of oil, so much so, we need to sell it abroad to keep prices high.

Barry intentionally pissed off the oil companies and seriously limited their profit and boy are they PO’d.

[achilles2000]

Pray for $10 gas. It would be the best anti-Obamalini political contribution anyone could make. Besides, I’d rather give my money to oil companies than politicians.

[dragnet2]

Besides, I’d rather give my money to oil companies than politicians.

Where do I sign up for the choice of paying taxes or paying the oil companies?

[familyop]

Then higher is better. Let oil prices fly.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I would pay $10 a gallon if it meant Ubama lost in a landslide and was driven back to Kenya on a rail.

[TomGuy]

Even the MSM are apprehensive that gas prices will become an issue.

Saturday on Meet the Press, David Gregory tried to provide pre-emptive cover for Obama with this editorialized comment to Rep. Cantor regarding gas prices:

MR. GREGORY: And part of that, of course, I wonder as a, as a leader in the Congress, if you would counsel Republicans running for president not to use gas prices as a political club against the president when it really is a failure of leadership, is it not, on the part of Republicans and Democrats going back decades here, to fail to achieve energy independence and then be subject to the winds of--whims, rather, of instability in the Middle East that makes gas prices go up and down.

MSM will do all they can to provide cover for Obama. That is most of the reason for all the flapping over contraceptives and Fluke -- to distract attention away from joblessness, the economy, and other 'real' issues.

[Colorado Cowgirl]

"I’d rather give my money to oil companies than politicians." Amen brother. Buy now: Bye-bye Obummer! Now I will say it in a language you love and understand: إلى اللقاء (ar) ('ílaa al-liqaa'), باي باي (ar) (bay bay)

[Milhous]

Prices rise when tens of trillions more dollars (handed out like candy to privileged people) bid for finite goods.

[no dems]

I’d pay $10 a gallon from now until Election Day if it will get the Marxist Muslim out of the White House.

[no dems]

LOL...... I did not read your posted comment before I posted mine. (Post #13). I wasn’t being a copy cat. But, then, how does the old saying go: Great minds run in the same channel.

[ApplegateRanch]

Riiiiight! A SYMPTOM is the "most important factor"; not any of the CAUSES of the symptom.

And they let encourage DEMAND these people vote as many times as possible.

[RayChuang88]

There is now fear that we could see US$5.00/US gallon average national pricing for 87 octane unleaded by Memorial Day this year. If that happens, all the polling lead Obama has now will disappear in very short order, because now we have the specter of stagflation: a combination of higher inflation, no economic growth and high unemployment. It was this very problem that was one of two major contributing factors in President Carter's downfall at the 1980 elections.

[Cicero]

I just got the bill for fuel oil delivered to my house today. $4.15 a gallon.

When we moved here, 12 years ago, the price was $0.65 a gallon.

That’s not all Obama’s fault, obviously, but it is mostly the fault of the Democrats in congress, and the seeming inability of the gutless Republicans to fight them.

Oh, and it was Juan McCain’s vote that killed drilling in ANWR. Not that Bush tried all that hard, frankly.

[ApplegateRanch]

it really is a failure of leadership, is it not, on the part of Republicans and Democrats going back decades here, to fail to achieve energy independence and then be subject to the winds of--whims, rather, of instability in the Middle East that makes gas prices go up and down.

Cantor should have answered along the lines of:

"Well, Mr. Gregory, that is most unfair, because even if we did not import--nay, even if we had a domestic surplus to export--the price per barrel, and so pump prices, would still fluctuate on Middle East unrest because oil is an international commodity. That means, Mr. Gregory, that the international market would still determine the price, even if we did not need to import a single drop of foreign oil."

[Reynoldo]

Gas prices MOST important?? 77%??....... c'mon

[pallis]

But cheery Barry has assured the dupes and half-wits that he can do nothing about gas prices. It’s not his fault, not like it was Bush’s fault.