Democratic candidates across the country are aiming to make abortion a frontline issue in the upcoming midterms, but gun policies ranked higher as an immediate concern for voters, according to a POLITICO-Harvard survey released Thursday.
The survey asked 1,815 registered voters to say which issues were “extremely important” in their congressional vote. Abortion ranked fourth with 44 percent of them saying it is “extremely important,” and while it polled much higher than it had in 2020 or 2018, it still fell below inflation (51 percent), the economy and jobs (49 percent), and guns (46 percent). CONTINUED
Dan Goldberg, Politico
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