{"id":116250,"date":"2022-10-31T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116250"},"modified":"2022-10-31T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:23:18","slug":"economy-is-top-election-issue-abortion-and-crime-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116250","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Economy Is Top Election Issue; Abortion and Crime Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Among the policy issues being debated and discussed this election year, the economy leads in importance to Americans. Nearly half of U.S. registered voters, 49%, say the economy will be extremely important to their vote for Congress. But abortion and crime are nearly as prominent; 42% and 40% of voters, respectively, say each of these is extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>Gun policy and immigration constitute third-tier election issues, rated extremely important by 38% and 37% of voters, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer, 31%, say relations with Russia is extremely important to their vote, while the 26% focused on climate change makes it the least influential issue tested in the Oct. 3-20 Gallup poll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/404243\/economy-top-election-issue-abortion-crime-next.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Voters rate the economy most influential to their vote this year, but abortion and crime aren\u2019t far behind. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JBypPUlXzs\">https:\/\/t.co\/JBypPUlXzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GallupNews (@GallupNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GallupNews\/status\/1587078547281174529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the policy issues being debated and discussed this election year, the economy leads in importance to Americans. Nearly half of U.S. registered voters, 49%, say the economy will be extremely important to their vote for Congress. But abortion and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116250\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,168,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116254,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116250\/revisions\/116254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}