Sixty percent of voters who cast ballots on Election Day or earlier say the economy is the most important issue in their vote, according to an early CBS News exit poll. … Seventeen percent of voters cited health care as their top issue. … These are early exit polls, and […] Read more »
Economy and immigration are top issues to Latino voters
The ImpreMedia-Latino Decisions Election Eve Poll of 5,600 Latino voters has indicated that the Economy/Jobs and Immigration were the most important issues to Latino voters in 2012. [cont.] Latino Decisions Read more »
Foreign Policy Data Roundup: Candidates and Issues
Foreign affairs, the theme of Monday night’s third and final presidential debate, has been one of President Barack Obama’s stronger issue areas in the campaign in 2012, although whether that continues to be the case isn’t clear. … How much foreign policy issues will matter to voters when casting their […] Read more »
Economy Is Dominant Issue for Americans as Election Nears
The “economy in general” ranks No. 1 on Gallup’s Most Important Problem list in October, with 37% of Americans saying it is the top issue facing the country. This is up from 29% in September and exceeds unemployment, in second place at 26%. … Democrats, independents, and Republicans all became […] Read more »
Voters Rank Health Care as the Second Most Important Issue in Their Presidential Vote Choice
A new analysis of 37 national opinion polls conducted by 17 survey organizations finds that health care is the second most important issue for likely voters in deciding their 2012 presidential vote. This is the highest that health care has been ranked as a presidential election issue since 1992. … […] Read more »
For Voters It’s Still the Economy
As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for their first debate on Oct. 3, the issues at the top of the voters’ agenda have changed little since 2008. Fully 87% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote, while 83% say jobs will be […] Read more »