What Went Down In The Fourth Democratic Debate
According to that Kaiser Family Foundation poll I just mentioned, Democrats do want to hear more about reproductive health care issues! Fifty-eight percent said that too little time has been spent on that issue. And Harris got big applause for it.
Several of the candidates have access to reproductive health care as part of their platforms. But this is usually focused on abortion, not other kinds of reproductive health care — which is affected by opposition to abortion. Hundreds of sexual health clinics have closed across the country in recent years, and the CDC now says this is directly responsible for record-breaking increases in STI cases.
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 12.9 percent of people said the economy and jobs was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)
Who voters think is best on the economy and jobs
Among the 417 respondents who said the economy and jobs was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll
| candidate | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 40.2% | |
| Bernie Sanders | 17.0 | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 13.1 | |
| Andrew Yang | 7.5 | |
| Someone else | 4.9 | |
| Kamala Harris | 4.2 | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 2.9 | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 2.7 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 1.5 | |
| Julián Castro | 1.3 | |
| Beto O’Rourke | 1.2 | |
| Cory Booker | 0.5 | |
| Tom Steyer | 0.5 |