A Midterm American Crime Story

Rising crime has emerged as a major factor in the upcoming election.

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“The January 6 committee can’t win elections,” groused The New Republic last week. Abortion doesn’t seem likely to save Democrats this election cycle, either.

Early post-Dobbs reports of a blue wave seem to have been, at best, premature. The wave might have crested early; inflation might have emerged as more serious issue in the minds of struggling consumers regardless of the timing of the Dobbs ruling.

Whatever the Democratic Party is trying, it doesn’t appear to be working. At least, the media landscape is suddenly littered with dire polls, doom-laden predictions and admissions about how, “Democrats fear the midterm map is slipping away,” even from otherwise Democrat-friendly outfits like the Washington Post.

Democratic Party accomplishments aren’t making much of a positive impact on the polls and conflicting advice is pouring in from all sides.

“Stop boasting about the economy,” advises one well-meaning media outlet, confidently. “Start boasting about the economy,” advises another, with equal confidence.

Meanwhile, one message is making quite an impact in the polls- above and beyond the economy and inflation. Unfortunately, it has revealed another major potential stumbling-block for the…