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Inflation is plummeting across America except in Ron DeSantis’ Florida (www.alternet.org)

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Americans learned Wednesday morning the rate of inflation nationally has dropped dramatically, to just 3% annually, down from over 9% one year ago.But not in Florida, which MarketWatch reports “has the highest inflation in the U.S.”For much of the year, even before his presidential campaign official...

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[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, DeSantis is out at Florida no matter what because of term limits for the governor. So I am not surprised to see slipping poll numbers for favorability. I am shocked to see him diving below the margin for error beneath a democrat in a presidential toss up poll though!!

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am shocked to see him diving below the margin for error beneath a democrat in a presidential toss up poll though!!

The margin of error for that poll is significantly <5% for the Biden face-off:

Latest survey conducted July 7-9, 2023, among representative samples of roughly 6,000 registered voters, with an unweighted margin of error of +/-1 percentage points.

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That is the lowest I've ever seen a margin of error. During general election voter polling, the average is 3-6%, which is why I found the 5% lead Biden has on DeSantis so surprising.