Inflation, Price Increases Among Top Issues For Voters

By Brett Rowland (The Middle Sq.)

Voters of all stripes stated they’re involved about inflation and value will increase greater than virtually another concern forward of the 2024 presidential election.

Inflation has squeezed the budgets of American households as costs for meals, gasoline, housing and different staples have elevated. The Middle Sq. Voters’ Voices Ballot, carried out together with Noble Predictive Insights, discovered it was among the many prime three points for 44% of two,500 registered voters surveyed.

Amongst Republicans, inflation was among the many prime three points for half of these surveyed. That was adopted by unlawful immigration (42%), authorities corruption (26%) and economic system/jobs (25%).

It was additionally the highest concern for impartial voters. Amongst independents, inflation (40%) was adopted by crime/violence (28%), economic system/jobs (26%), authorities corruption and unlawful immigration (each 22%).

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For Democrats, the highest concern was local weather change (44%), adopted by inflation (40%), abortion rights (35%), crime/violence (30%) and well being care entry (29%).

“Inflation was truly excessive throughout all three teams,” stated Mike Noble, founder and CEO of Noble Predictive Insights. “Inflation is a big ache level, enormous concern. So I believe we’re going to see a variety of speaking about that in this election.”

Extra Democrats (30%) and independents (28%) stated crime/violence was a prime concern than Republicans (24%).

Unbiased voters had been extra aligned with Republicans on a lot of points, together with nationwide debt/authorities spending, unlawful immigration and authorities corruption, amongst different points. However independents had been extra carefully aligned with Democrats on points reminiscent of well being care entry and local weather change.

The ballot was carried out by Noble Predictive Insights from July 31 to Aug. 3. In contrast to conventional nationwide polls, with a restricted respondent depend of about 1,000, Noble Predictive surveyed 1,000 registered Republicans, 1,000 registered Democrats, and 500 independents, culminating in a pattern measurement of two,500. The margin of error for the combination pattern was ±2.4%, with every political group independently weighted.

For details about the methodology, go to www.noblepredictiveinsights.com.

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