Cost of living top of mind for US voters before midterms

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe BBC's Clive Myrie traveled to North Carolina, where voters told him the rising cost of living is what they are thinking about before Tuesday's midterms.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOne voter put it this way: "I've had people eating cat food." Election Day is November third.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCat food. That's a rough grocery run.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn a Carolina Journal poll, forty-six point one percent named inflation and cost of living as their top issue, and the Associated Press says about sixty-five percent blame the Trump administration.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd Roy Cooper, the Democratic Senate nominee, has spent weeks on a Make Stuff Cost Less tour promising cheaper food, health care, utilities, child care and housing.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSince January twenty twenty-five, gas is up thirty-three percent, a dollar and two cents a gallon, while earnings grew six percent.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the pump got a thirty-three percent raise and you got six. Your commute is basically a subscription now.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNorth Carolina does have the cheapest gas in the nation, about three dollars and forty-eight cents a gallon, according to AAA.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCheapest in the country, and they're still eating the cat's dinner. That's the whole election in one sentence.