pocketbook

Polls asking voters about priorities use different methodologies, but they broadly agree on the dominance of pocketbook concerns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

All of it, unfortunately, has been passed down to your pocketbook in one form or another.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Broader electorates require democracy narratives grounded in pocketbook realities.”

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

“As long as I am asking my neighbors to make appropriations for anything that contributes to their taxes…I don’t get anything from the state or their pocketbook to do this job,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

I dug into my pocketbook and found the scraps of my letter to Doreen.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

"American voters voted with their pocketbooks," Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

“I think the starting point is that Americans vote with their pocketbooks, which is nothing new,” said Brouhard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Metro just can’t open our pocketbooks and throw money at the agency,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“With ⁠a resurgence in fuel prices and trade tensions, consumers anticipate greater pressures on their pocketbooks to come,” Joanne ⁠Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Ladies’ arms draped with pocketbooks and men’s arms draped with coats formed a barrier as difficult to get through as barbed wire.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg