the so-called urban ring county, surrounding cities now prefer a republican control of congress by five points. do you remember all the articles about how they g.o.p. has lost the suburbs forever? as hard as it is to believe, it turns out that a lot of serb overnights like a strong economy and border, you bet. according to the same poll them in the most important issue are inflation, immigration, and of course safety, crime. it democrats have bombed each one. on the economy, biden s approval is underwater by a whopping 19 points. probably going to drop further on today s inflation announcement. up 6.8, and of course this is a new record the highest level since june of 1982.