neil: i want to go to the election itself and let s say, mark, just hypothetically that republicans take back the house. they might even take back the senate. that s a higher climb are, i grant you. but the one thing we learned from a guy you used to advise, bill clinton, is that, you know, a savvy, pretty politically-attuned president can learn from such events. bill clinton did. famous era of big government is over. and he ended up getting reelected. i d like to try to juxtapose that against if it s that kind of a scenario, what a joe biden does. yeah. i mean, first, let me just say to lee s comments, we are picking up in the harris poll. maybe not a greater absolute turnout, but when we screen to likely voters now, the congressional horse race goes from 50-50 to 53-47. we re seeing voters who care about inflation, immigration and
todd: early voting begins today. based on your conversation with your customers, people have one issue that drives them when they pulled the lever at the ballot box. will inflation, the economy be that issue this year? i definitely believe so. todd: people are struggling all over the place. the race for governor is between the democratic incumbent and blast from the past, governor all the in the democratic incumbent survive not only to m in our area, still has a lot of support. it ll be very interesting at the polls. todd: i ll be at your area is a very republican area. what about a more liberal city, portland for example. will the impact of the economy,
much and that means that is less activity, the economy shrinks, and that could mean more people out of work. in a way, the suppress debate here is the normal way of thinking of the economy prevalent in the treasury and bank of england says in order to tame runaway inflation you have to use higher unemployment, and this is where it gets really brutal. do we have to endure a recession in order to tame higher inflation? does that make any sense when the inflation pressures coming from abroad, so make any sense to raise domestic ancestries when the pressure is pushing up the cost of living are not coming domestically but globally? i might weigh in will inflation come down in the uk? idietitian inflation come down in the uk? when will inflation inflation come down in the uk? when will inflation come inflation come down in the uk? when will inflation come down inflation come down in the uk? when will inflation come down in inflation come down in the uk? when will inflation come down
they have nothing to run on in the moment. they came back wondering what issues to elevate. build back better failed for them last year and now they have grasped abortion. and it is a good question whether they really want the american people and public to have a non-stop political debate over this subject between now and november. dana: it is quite likely they ve already maxed out on the voters that would consider that to be the main issue that propels them to vote. bill: i think the polling is it tells a confusing story, dan, in my view. on one hand it s this and the other that. i think it will take time for us to get a better sense of how the american people feel about this. when it comes to the economy, when it comes to inflation, this is going to be there for sure, dan. check this out. call for number two. how much longer will inflation be around? look at the bottom of your screen. even back in january almost half thought it would be around more than a year. now 45%.