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The outcome of next week’s midterm elections will determine much of importance to our nation and our countrymen. Those we elect to 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and to the majority in the U.S. Senate will shape domestic priorities, our foreign policy and our national security. The results of 36 gubernatorial contests and countless state legislative, mayoral, county supervisors, even school boards will affect everything from abortion to zoos.
So, what matters most in this week before these elections are decided?
If the „issues“ polls are correct, most Americans are focused on the corrosive effect record inflation is having on our paychecks. It’s not just „pain at the pump.“ It’s everything – from the cost of food and shelter to the price of heating our homes and all other essential goods and services. As James Carville put it for Bill Clinton: „It’s the economy, stupid!“
A close second (first, in some polls), is an unprecedented nationwide crime wave endangering every man, woman and child from sea to shining sea. None of us is safe in our homes or businesses, or while in a car or on public transportation. Ask any Supreme Court justice or Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old husband of the speaker of the House, or the suburban mom who had her car hijacked in daylight, at gunpoint – with her infant daughter in a car seat.
