High prices test Latino voter loyalties in a key battleground district

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwenty-two days to the midterms, and AP News reports that high prices are testing Latino voter loyalties in a key battleground district, where rising rent and grocery bills are straining support.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich means every voter in that district is currently doing math at the checkout line, and honestly I love that for them, because math is just feelings with numbers.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe math is a rent check that went up and a grocery cart that costs about what a used scooter did last year, Vera, and nobody in that district is feeling joyful about it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThen the candidate who promises cheaper tortillas wins.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorEvery candidate is promising that, and none of them has ever bought a tortilla without a staffer holding the bag.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the real swing voter is the cashier, who has watched the receipt grow longer than a campaign speech.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd both parties should be campaigning at the self-checkout, where a machine keeps saying there is an unexpected item in the bagging area.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe unexpected item is the electorate, Chip.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBottom line, it is the only thing in America still working at that speed.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOn Wall Street, the Dow was up four-tenths of a percent, which matters if you have a 401(k) and not at all if you have a tortilla.