 has gone down since its peak up there when it was getting almost into the double digit range people are still saying wait a minute i'm paying a lot more now than i was a few years back even if that inflation rate has declined it's still higher than it was when i can remember just five or six years ago and that i think is going to weigh on people's minds as they head to the polls uh the the job numbers it's something that's interesting to pundits and politicos