AP poll: Voters rank cost of living and corruption as top issues, and they're sour on Trump

American voters have two things at the top of their minds right now: the cost of living and corruption in government. That's the headline finding from the AP Voter Poll, which also turned up something else — a deep well of dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump.

The poll puts pocketbook pain and ethics in Washington side by side at the front of the list, according to the Associated Press. Neither is a small gripe. Together they frame how voters are sizing up the people in charge.

And the mood toward Trump is bleak. The AP Voter Poll found voters are deeply unhappy with the president, a reading that lands as his administration faces scrutiny on both the kitchen-table and good-government fronts.

Polls like this one don't decide elections, but they map the terrain. When the top concerns are money and corruption, and the incumbent's numbers are underwater, that's a combination campaigns on both sides will be studying closely.

The AP Voter Poll's findings give an early snapshot of what voters say they want addressed — and who they're blaming for the fact that it hasn't been.