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What Went Down At The December Democratic Primary Debate
Every time a candidate throws “and I’ll stop gerrymandering” into an answer about voting and elections, as Klobuchar did, it grossly simplifies a complicated issue. What is gerrymandering, exactly? As FiveThirtyEight has found, there are many ways of defining it. But I guess it sounds good.
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, just 2.4 percent of respondents listed foreign affairs as their top issue in the Democratic primary. (See other results from the poll here.)
Which issue matters most to voters?
Share of respondents who named each issue as the most important one in determining who they would vote for, in a FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll
| Issue | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Health care | 20.4% | |
| Wealth and income inequality | 13.8 | |
| The economy and jobs | 12.4 | |
| Climate change | 10.5 | |
| Something else | 7.7 | |
| Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other types of discrimination | 7.6 | |
| Social Security | 5.5 | |
| Gun policy | 5.2 | |
| Education | 4.7 | |
| Immigration | 4.6 | |
| The Supreme Court | 2.8 | |
| Taxes | 2.5 | |
| Foreign affairs | 2.4 |
Not sure what it was, but something about that Buttigieg answer sounded very rehearsed.