Another Reason Why Barack Obama Will Be President

Can you believe this shit? The cost of food has risen 26% in the last year: milk, eggs - basically all produce with the cost of eggs alone jumping fuckin 40%- meat, cereal, everything in the damn supermarket -- and have you seen the cost of a two piece at Popeyes lately?! So not only can Americans NOT afford to buy food for their families but they can't even afford to get to the damn store to buy food because no one can pay for gas! Gas is well on its way to being $4 a gallon and the good thing is that when gas prices go up, it tells who the country votes for to be President. According to Salon.com: Let's review the historical record. When Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president in January 1977, the average price of a gallon of regular leaded gasoline was 60 cents. By November 1980, the price had doubled to $1.19. So long, Jimmy! Four years later, the price had fallen to $1.11. Incumbent Ronald Reagan obliterated Walter Mondale. In November 1988, the average price dropped even further, down to 90 cents. Vice President George H.W. Bush annihilated Michael Dukakis. The United States phased out leaded gas in 1991, so for comparison purposes we must switch to unleaded. In November 1988, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded was 95 cents. But four years later it had jumped to $1.15. Sayonara, George the First! By November 1996, the average price had risen 10 cents, to $1.25. But incumbent Bill Clinton still managed to beat Bob Dole anyway. The exception that proves the rule? Normalcy soon reasserted itself: In November 2000, the price shot all the way up to $1.55, and Bush the Second "beat" Al Gore. So far, so good. The numbers tell a remarkably consistent story, notwithstanding the minor blip of Clinton vs. Dole. Otherwise, in every single case, it's the gas price, stupid. Rising pain at the pump spelled doom for the political party that held the White House. So basically, if the war, the recession, the ridiculous increase in unemployment, the state of education, the state of this country as a whole isn't enough to demand change, when 'the folk' actually feel like the increase in food, gas etc. reach their pockets, they are going to be so over the Re-pubic-cans and vote Obama.