Recent polls show that economic insecurity is galloping well ahead of Iraq as young voters biggest issue.
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tend to assume that the war in Iraq is the main issue galvanizing young
voters this year. But recent polls show that economic insecurity is
galloping well ahead of Iraq as their biggest issue.
In a recent Rock the Vote poll, 17 percent of people younger than 30
named the economy and jobs as their No. 1 issue. Iraq ranked second
with 12 percent, followed very closely by health care and education.
The Feb. 25 results were a noticeable shift from Rock the Vote's
November poll, in which Iraq ranked first, at 28 percent, followed by
health care at 22 percent and the economy at 14 percent.
Rock the Vote also released a summary of recent polls of young voters
Feb. 19 — and all of them had the economy as young voters' No. 1 issue.
A Pew Center analysis of exit poll results from Super Tuesday showed
the economy as the issue most likely to be rated “important” by
Democratic voters younger than 30 at 46 percent, followed by Iraq at 36
percent.
An early warning of the rising importance of economic anxiety among
young voters came Jan. 5 at the presidential debates in New Hampshire.
An instant Facebook poll showed 47 percent of the roughly 30,000
respondents chose “the economy” as the issue they wished Republicans
had spent more time on in their debate. Forty-one percent said the same
of the Democrats, making it by far the No. 1 choice in both parties.
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I really think that Hispanics need to be careful who they are voting for in the upcoming election. I fear many are throwing their support behind Oback and that is a huge mistake. Read what he wrote in his book:
"I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to
my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, the son of
Africa, that I'd packed all the I sought in myself" - Obama's racist
book "Dreams from My Father"
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