Takeaways from AP's reporting on how Arizona voters view the economy with the election close at handMESA, Ariz. -- The Arizona economy by many measures is flourishing, but it doesn't feel that way for a lot of voters in the presidential battleground state as they consider their choices on Nov. 5. Voters are hearing Democrats and Republicans promise to help the middle class if they win. But voters have heard that before and, in the view of many, nothing got better. That disconnect is vivid in Arizona, where housing and other costs have spiked. More people moved into the area rather than its cities and at rates that exceeded housing supply, pushing prices up in ways that made mortgage rates of 6%-plus troubling.

Source: ABC News October 19, 2024 17:23 UTC