Abortion and gun violence are still behind economics issues for the midterms. Democrats place abortion and guns above the economy and inflation, Republicans and independents go with the economy, inflation and rising prices. Good info in the link.
From the article/poll below conducted by ABC - A separate question asking what the single most important issue will be in their vote for Congress showed a similar ranking of issue priorities. The top issues were inflation (21%), the economy (19%), gun violence (17%) and abortion (12%).
Economic issues top the public's agenda: POLL
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/economic-issues-top-public-agenda-130018227.htmlI’d bet the farm, give it 2 or 3 weeks with no mass shootings, gun violence returns to single digits. History has shown a steep rise for gun control after a mass shooting, then shortly after it done and over with, back to 4 or 5%. I see no reason why history won’t repeat itself here. Not surprising as a lot of issues are driven by knee jerk reaction when they happen, then as time goes by, the old steady issues that has always been there returns to their prominent place a top of issues that decide how one votes.
Let it be noted most polls include inflation in the economic issue category and usually don’t break it down. Under that, the economy would be at 40% in how voters will decide who to vote for in November.