1. Most Important Issues in Elections
Percent
Data: Robert J. Blendon et al., “Voters and Health Reform in the 2008 Election,” New England Journal of Medicine 359, no. 19 (Nov. 6, 2008): 2050–61, and Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, and Logan S. Casey, “Health Care in the 2016 Election — A View Through Voters’ Polarized Lenses,” New England Journal of Medicine 375, no. 17 (Oct. 27, 2016): e37,
Note: Top issues were jobs, economy (1988, 1992, 2008, 2012, 2016) and family, moral, ethical values (1996, 2000, 2004).