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Voters across battleground states are expressing mounting frustration with the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran that has produced no clear resolution \u2014 only rising costs and disrupted lives.<\/p>\n

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In Wisconsin, Robert Edelstein, who runs a window-tinting business, didn’t hold back, calling the decision to strike Iran the “stupidest thing that could ever possibly have happened” and comparing it unfavorably to the Iraq War, reported The Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s screwed everything up, as we all know,” Edelstein said. “It\u2019s absolutely stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow Wisconsinite Terrence Dahmen, a retiree who typically votes Democratic, called American involvement “a huge mistake,” arguing the U.S. wasn’t provoked and suggesting the real motive was oil. He said the money would have been better spent on renewable energy.<\/p>\n

In Georgia, retired teacher Jimmy Carter watched Trump’s motorcade pass near his old school with disbelief, dismissing the war as a “dumba– idea” \u2014 a sentiment he said even his Trump-voting brother shared.<\/p>\n

The frustration isn’t purely ideological. Clay Harvison, a Marietta mixed martial artist who voted for Trump, said the war should have ended months ago and warned that younger voters are increasingly questioning why a president who campaigned against foreign wars is now overseeing one.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe should have left it when he had already bombed them,\u201d Harvison said. “Being remembered as being great … he\u2019s messing with that really bad right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond the political anger, the war’s costs are showing up in everyday life. Gasoline prices have climbed above $4 a gallon for the first time in years, according to AAA, with lower- and middle-income households absorbing a disproportionate share of the pain.<\/p>\n

In Maine, logging worker Lydia Stone described being squeezed by rising fuel costs while prices for her product stay flat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a huge jump in prices, and makes life a lot harder,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also connected her frustration over funding the war to cuts in programs like SNAP, noting longer lines at her local food pantry and a friend’s husband being deployed with little warning.<\/p>\n

Not every voter interviewed opposes the war outright \u2014 some with military ties expressed conditional or full support, wanting either a clearer exit strategy or full-throated confrontation with Iran. But across party lines and regions, voters are increasingly concluding the war isn’t worth the cost.<\/p>\n

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