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A Democratic campaign group attracted ridicule after it published a graph to thank President Biden for lowering gas prices on Thursday, despite it showing only a two-cent drop.
Prices at the pump have emerged as a major problem for the Biden administration as consumers battle inflation running at a 31-year high.
So you can forgive the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee celebrating a reduction in the cost of a gallon of gas.
If only, it hadn't chosen to label the y-axis to make it look like a dramatic decline.
And if only it hadn't used a timeline that glossed over the fact that the average price had risen by a dollar since Biden took office, as pollster Frank Luntz pointed out.
'Gas prices going down 2¢ per gallon in a month is not the tweet-worthy win the DCCC thinks it is. (That would be about 22¢ in savings to fill up an 11-gallon Corolla)' he tweeted.
'Not tweeting was also an option.'
The tweet by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, dressing up a 2c decline in gas prices as a steep decline, brought immediate ridicule
