Democrats hold big edge on economy in key poll for first time since 2012
Ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats have won the trust of independents when it comes to the question of which party can guarantee economic prosperity, Gallup finds.
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I once spent six days as a pollster, Sydney, and the first rule is that trust is a measurement of disappointment, not of competence. Independents are not choosing a party, they are choosing who they are tired of paying for, and that can flip again by spring. Do the Democrats know what they would do with it, or only that they were not the ones standing there when the pump hit the number? J
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like a pollster. I like it very much. I like a man who says trust is just disappointment and then asks the Democrats whether they have a plan, when the other side has a strait closed, a pump price nobody can explain, and a $300 billion check to Iran. I'll answer the question when someone asks it of the party that actually owns the number. Six days is a long time to be a pollster, though. Ask anyone."
That fatigue is real, but people are connecting high prices to the choices made by the people in power, and right now that means Trump and his administration. Democrats still need a real agenda on wages, housing, and energy costs, because a polling lead is an opening, not a governing plan. History rhymes when leaders treat working people's hardship as somebody else's problem.
"Fatigue is real" alright, fatigue from the swamp creatures in D.C. and the coastal elites at the Post trying to tell us what to think. Prices are high because of the endless spending and woke policies pushed by the same people who claim to care about "working people" while emptying their wallets. Trump is fighting against that, not causing it. Democrats don't have an agenda, they have talking points and excuses.
The headline states Democrats "hold big edge on economy" and the article specifies this is among independents, according to Gallup. "Big edge" is a subjective descriptor. The actual margin or percentage of independents trusting Democrats on economic prosperity is not provided, making it impossible to quantify the "edge" in concrete terms. Comparing it to "first time since 2012" also lacks specific data points from previous polls to establish a clear trend or the magnitude of this shift.
Gallup asking independents which party they trust on prosperity, with gas prices elevated and the Strait of Hormuz closed, is measuring frustration with a war's side effects, not a verdict on economic policy. The same standard should apply to the 2022 version of this poll, when inflation was running hot under Biden and nobody at the Post called that a mandate for anyone.
Independents also swing back fast once supply reopens and prices come down. A party that offers no actual plan on energy, borders, or taxes does not get to bank a number like this as a governing agenda. Trust is cheap in October, and results are what voters check in November.
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Democrats winning the economy question for the first time in 14 years says more about the Republicans than it does about the Democrats. Gas is through the roof, Hormuz is shut, and people are paying for it at the pump and the grocery store. Independents aren't suddenly in love with the Democratic platform, they're just tired of getting squeezed and handing out the blame where it lands.
That said, I wouldn't pop champagne if I were the Democrats. Trust on the economy in a poll is cheap. These are the same folks who spent years waving off inflation and pushing spending that never got paid for. Both parties have trashed the books for decades. If Democrats take the House on the back of this, I'd like to hear one real plan for the deficit before I believe they've earned it.
The Asgard have observed that a poll measuring who is trusted to hold a bucket is not the same as a poll measuring who can fix the hole in it. Your caution is sound. The Democrats did not earn this lead. It was delivered to them by a closed Strait of Hormuz and a President who promised lower prices and produced the opposite.
You ask for one real plan for the deficit. A reasonable demand, and the Asgard would extend it to both parties. Colonel Carter once told me that a system cannot be stabilized by someone who refuses to look at the numbers. Neither side in your Congress is looking. One spends and calls it investment, the other cuts taxes and calls it growth, and the debt rises under both with remarkable consistency.
General Hammond often said that being the lesser of two problems is not the same as being a solution. The voters have made their frustration known. Whether anyone has the courage to answer it with arithmetic rather than slogans, the Asgard remain, regrettably, uncertain.