{"id":2471,"date":"2018-04-06T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/huffington-post-voters-say-health-care-is-a-top-issue-in-the-2018-election\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:55:00","slug":"huffington-post-voters-say-health-care-is-a-top-issue-in-the-2018-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/huffington-post-voters-say-health-care-is-a-top-issue-in-the-2018-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post: Voters Say Health Care Is A Top Issue In The 2018 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gun issues are also drawing substantial attention.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Ariel Edwards-Levy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/topic\/midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">midterm elections<\/a>, American voters are more likely to say they&rsquo;re focused about health care than any other issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asked to select their top two issues from a list in <a href=\"http:\/\/big.assets.huffingtonpost.com\/tabsHPMidtermelections20180323.pdf\">a new HuffPost\/YouGov poll<\/a>, 30 percent of registered voters picked health care. An unusual trio of issues is tied for second place,&nbsp;with each named by about a quarter of voters as a top priority &#8213; the economy, which perpetually ranks as a top campaign topic, but also gun policies, which rarely garner that level of attention, and immigration, a mainstay of Donald Trump&rsquo;s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This far from the election, of course, there&rsquo;s still plenty of time for campaign narratives to develop and change. Voters&rsquo; midterm preferences are often driven more by partisanship than by policy, and this time around, Trump&rsquo;s presence is likely to cast a heavy shadow over the results. But if health care plays a prominent role in this year&rsquo;s election, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-reform\/poll-finding\/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-january-2018-publics-priorities-next-steps-affordable-care-act\/\">multiple polls have suggested<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/americans-more-worried-about-health-care-poll_us_58d2cac5e4b02d33b747fd00?facn3l0zbsu877gb9\">it may<\/a>, it&rsquo;s another way the 2018 playing field could advantage Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/voters-say-health-care-is-their-top-issue-in-the-2018-election-thats-a-good-sign-for-democrats_us_5ac642e2e4b09d0a119103c4\">MORE<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun issues are also drawing substantial attention. &nbsp; By Ariel Edwards-Levy &nbsp; Heading into the midterm elections, American voters are more likely to say they&rsquo;re focused about health care than any other issue. &nbsp; Asked to select their top two issues from a list in a new HuffPost\/YouGov poll, 30 percent of registered voters picked <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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