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Inflation up, virus down as priorities in US: AP-NORC poll

Inflation up, virus down as priorities in US: AP-NORC poll

Inflation up, virus down as priorities in US: AP-NORC poll
Jan 10, 2022 1 min, 16 secs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into a critical midterm election year, the top political concerns of Americans are shifting in ways that suggest Democrats face considerable challenges to maintaining their control of Congress.

Just 37% of Americans name the virus as one of their top five priorities for the government to work on in 2022, compared with 53% who said it was a leading priority at the same time a year ago.

A similar percentage said the same last year, but mentions of inflation are much higher now: 14% this year, compared with less than 1% last year.

That sentiment reflects the challenge for Democrats at the onset of the election year.

“We’ll have another wave next year, and I just don’t think anyone’s going to care.

I think we’re going to get to a point where everyone’s just going to have to learn to live with it.

But compared with last year, higher percentages of people called out other issues, including immigration among Republicans and gun control among Democrats, as pressing in 2022.

“I’m hopeful with omicron,” said Samantha Flowers, a 33-year-old community college teacher in Columbia, Missouri, which has its own open Senate seat on November’s ballot.

“Whoever’s not in power is going to spin it in such a way to make it look worse than it might be,” said Keough, 68, whose state also has an open Senate seat this year.

“I don’t think we’re going to win an election for lack of anxiety,” Green said, “if we’ve achieved nothing else.”

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