Inside The $250 Electric Bill: Dissecting The Midterms' Most Hated Piece Of Mail Today, for perhaps the first time in modern American history, the monthly electric bill is on the ballot. Not literally, of course (although in nine states , utility commissioners literally are), but as Reuters put it on Friday, this could be " the first election to feature utilities and electricity, specifically, as a prominent issue in the midterms .
" Readers who have been with us for a while will not be surprised. Back in August 2025, when the "power bill crisis" was still a story mostly confined to angry Maryland Facebook groups, we posted a chart of CPI electricity with a big arrow pointing up and a simple prediction: In one year, this will be the most popular chart on this site pic.twitter.