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Voters from the left and the right are finding a common, populist ground targeting American corporations, according to a Wall Street Journal Politics newsletter published Tuesday. WSJ Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta describes a "political horseshoe forming" around restrictions on corporate power that extend beyond Big Tech into credit-card companies, health-care companies, housing, and child care.
A Wall Street Journal survey of 1,500 registered voters found bipartisan support for government-imposed price caps and market interventions, with voters of all partisan stripes strongly backing limits on prescription drug costs, child-care expenses and credit-card interest rates. The poll, conducted Sept. 16-21 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, tested more than 30 policy ideas and found that 14 of 16 policies addressing living costs, healthcare access and taxation drew majority support.
A "pissed-off majority" of voters is reshaping the 2026 midterm elections, framing the coming contests less as left versus right than as "well-fed versus the fed-up," according to interviews and reporting by The Guardian. The dissatisfaction spans healthcare costs, grocery and gas prices, tariffs, foreign wars, immigration enforcement, and access to abortion care, and has fueled primary victories for both progressive and moderate Democratic challengers.