FiveThirtyEight
Aaron Bycoffe

Just 2.5 percent of respondents in the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week listed foreign affairs as their top issue in the Democratic primary.

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 19.8%
The economy and jobs 13.9
Wealth and income inequality 12.6
Climate change 10.7
Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other types of discrimination 7.6
Something else 7.5
Social Security 6.3
Gun policy 5.1
Education 4.7
Immigration 4.0
Taxes 2.8
Foreign affairs 2.5
The Supreme Court 2.4

Data comes from polling done by Ipsos for FiveThirtyEight, using Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel, a probability-based online panel that is recruited to be representative of the U.S. population. The poll was conducted from Nov. 14 to Nov. 18 among a general population sample of adults, with 3,786 respondents who say they are likely to vote in their state’s Democratic primary or caucus. For the likely Democratic primary voter subset of respondents, the poll has a margin of error of +/- 1.71 percentage points.


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