BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: New Poll Finds Americans Less Afraid Of Virus Than Inflation, Cost-Of-Living | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    In what looks like bad news for President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party, a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in early December found that fear of the coronavirus is no longer Americans' prime concern - the economy, with fear of inflation and rising cost of living, dwarfed the fear of the coronavirus.

    The poll found a huge 68% of respondents mentioned the economy in some way as a top worry for 2022, as opposed to 37% naming the coronavirus. AP stated:

    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. The economy outpaced the pandemic in the open-ended question, with 68% of respondents mentioning it in some way as a top 2022 concern. 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.

    "Consumer prices jumped 6.8% for the 12 months ending in November, a nearly four-decade high," AP noted adding, "Meanwhile, roughly twice as many Americans now mention their household finances, namely, the cost of living, as a governmental priority, 24% vs. 12% last year."

    Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, remarked vis-à-vis the Biden administration's actions and the coronavirus, "It's certainly not the victory the Democrats thought it would be. 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. This will die with a whimper as people just lose interest."

    A recent Fox Business survey found 47% of respondents felt that President Biden's policies were "hurting" the economy; only 22% felt they were "helping," The Daily Wire noted, pointing out, "Likewise, 46% believe that Biden's social spending agenda would 'push inflation higher,' while 21% believe it would 'help lower inflation.'"

    The Daily Wire added:

    Other insights from the Fox Business poll include:

• Rising prices over the last six months have caused financial hardship for two-thirds of voters. That climbs to three-quarters among those living in lower-income households.
• By more than two-to-one, people say the president's economic policies have hurt rather than helped them personally. That's largely driven by almost two-thirds of Republicans saying they've been hurt - nearly five times the number of Democrats who say the same. For comparison, one-third of Democrats said they had been hurt by former President Donald Trump's economic policies in a December 2018 Fox News survey.
• Just 1 in 6 voters say they are better off financially than they were a year ago, and a majority rates their personal financial situation negatively. That's a reversal since August, when over half said their finances were in positive shape.

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