Clinton’s issues at the bottom
If the Hillary Clinton campaign wants to add yet another excuse for its presidential loss to Russian hacking, “deplorable” voters and James Comey, among other things, it might want to examine what a Gallup poll found were the most important issues to Americans.
In the 2016 average of monthly surveys, issues most vital to Democrats like “the environment” and “guns” consistently were ranked low among the 25 issues listed on the poll. Indeed, only 2 percent of survey respondents listed the two issues as their No. 1 concern. Those two issues tied for lowest in importance with the “gap between the rich and the poor,” “foreign aid,” “the judicial system” and two others.
The top five most important issues, respectively, were “the economy” (16 percent), “government” (13 percent), “unemployment/jobs” (9 percent), race relations (8 percent) and immigration (7 percent).
Donald Trump, it might be noted, focused on the economy, the often ineffectiveness of government, unemployment/jobs and immigration, and occasionally race relations, in his campaign.