5 Most Important Issues for Voters

The candidates' positions on these 5 issues were the most frequently ranked as "extremely important"

By U.S. News Staff

October 30, 2008 RSS Feed Print
  1. The economy (55%)
  2. The federal budget deficit (44%)
  3. Terrorism (42%)
  4. Energy, including gas prices (41%)
  5. The situation in Iraq (41%)

Source: Gallup

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These are the issues that are important in making a

decision. So the actual choice of president is not an

issue but is come to through how people view the candidates

stand on the most important ones.

of 1:44PM November 02, 2008

i like he way you arranged the issues and the way you put what issue got what percentage but you forgot the most important issue that should have been number one, the current election the person we vote for will be the president for the next four years and it will either be 4 year of struggling and misery or 4 years of happiness and change for the better and not the worst....

shera of NJ 12:36PM November 02, 2008

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