Open-Ended: Issues that the candidates should be talking about during the 2024 presidential campaign (August 2024)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| The economy | 24% |
| Immigration / Border security | 18% |
| Inflation | 16% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 7% |
| Healthcare | 5% |
| Climate change / Environment | 4% |
| Democracy | 3% |
| National security | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 2% |
| Government spending | 2% |
| Crime | 2% |
| Israel | 1% |
| Education | 1% |
| Taxes | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 1% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% |
| Other | 7% |
| Don’t know | 3% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 22% | 20% | 27% |
| Immigration / Border security | 2% | 20% | 32% |
| Inflation | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 15% | 2% | 0% |
| Healthcare | 8% | 5% | 2% |
| Climate change / Environment | 6% | 5% | 2% |
| Democracy | 5% | 4% | 1% |
| National security | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 2% | 2% | 0% |
| Government spending | 2% | 0% | 2% |
| Crime | 2% | 3% | 1% |
| Israel | 3% | 2% | 0% |
| Education | 1% | 2% | 0% |
| Taxes | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 2% | 1% | 0% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 8% | 9% | 5% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 4% | 3% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 19% | 29% | 21% |
| Immigration / Border security | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Inflation | 13% | 22% | 10% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 14% | 6% | 18% |
| Healthcare | 13% | 3% | 7% |
| Climate change / Environment | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Democracy | 3% | 3% | 7% |
| National security | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 3% | 2% | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 1% | 4% | 2% |
| Government spending | 1% | 5% | 1% |
| Crime | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Israel | 3% | 5% | 2% |
| Education | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Taxes | 1% | 0% | 2% |
| Corruption | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 3% | 1% | 2% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 2% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Other | 11% | 4% | 9% |
| Don’t know | 1% | 3% | 4% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 33% | 29% | 24% |
| Immigration / Border security | 31% | 23% | 36% |
| Inflation | 11% | 27% | 19% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Healthcare | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Climate change / Environment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Democracy | 0% | 2% | 1% |
| National security | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Government spending | 5% | 1% | 1% |
| Crime | 1% | 2% | 1% |
| Israel | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Education | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| Taxes | 2% | 0% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Social security / Medicare | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 8% | 3% | 5% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 2% | 3% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 19% | 28% | 25% |
| Immigration / Border security | 3% | 10% | 32% |
| Inflation | 12% | 19% | 18% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 15% | 4% | 3% |
| Healthcare | 7% | 4% | 3% |
| Climate change / Environment | 8% | 5% | 1% |
| Democracy | 7% | 2% | 1% |
| National security | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 3% | 3% | 0% |
| Government spending | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| Crime | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Israel | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| Education | 1% | 1% | 0% |
| Taxes | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Corruption | 0% | 2% | 0% |
| Trump’s crimes | 3% | 1% | 0% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 6% | 7% | 6% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 5% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 19% | 19% | 20% |
| Immigration / Border security | 5% | 1% | 3% |
| Inflation | 8% | 11% | 17% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 15% | 16% | 13% |
| Healthcare | 6% | 8% | 7% |
| Climate change / Environment | 9% | 7% | 8% |
| Democracy | 7% | 10% | 3% |
| National security | 3% | 0% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 3% | 3% | 0% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| Government spending | 6% | 0% | 0% |
| Crime | 3% | 1% | 1% |
| Israel | 0% | 6% | 7% |
| Education | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| Taxes | 0% | 2% | 0% |
| Corruption | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 5% | 6% | 7% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 4% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 33% | 26% | 20% |
| Immigration / Border security | 22% | 31% | 40% |
| Inflation | 18% | 20% | 15% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 6% | 3% | 0% |
| Healthcare | 4% | 3% | 2% |
| Climate change / Environment | 0% | 1% | 1% |
| Democracy | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| National security | 3% | 1% | 1% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 4% | 1% | 0% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Government spending | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Crime | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| Israel | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Education | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Taxes | 1% | 1% | 2% |
| Corruption | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Trump’s crimes | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 3% | 6% | 9% |
| Don’t know | 1% | 3% | 3% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 25% | 27% | 22% |
| Immigration / Border security | 24% | 4% | 12% |
| Inflation | 14% | 23% | 22% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 4% | 11% | 7% |
| Healthcare | 4% | 3% | 6% |
| Climate change / Environment | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| Democracy | 3% | 4% | 2% |
| National security | 2% | 4% | 0% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 1% | 1% | 4% |
| Government spending | 3% | 0% | 1% |
| Crime | 1% | 3% | 1% |
| Israel | 1% | 1% | 2% |
| Education | 1% | 0% | 2% |
| Taxes | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 2% | 0% | 1% |
| Social security / Medicare | 1% | 1% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 6% | 9% | 4% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 3% | 5% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| The economy | 26% | 23% |
| Immigration / Border security | 18% | 17% |
| Inflation | 16% | 17% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 3% | 10% |
| Healthcare | 4% | 5% |
| Climate change / Environment | 3% | 4% |
| Democracy | 3% | 3% |
| National security | 2% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 1% | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 1% | 3% |
| Government spending | 3% | 1% |
| Crime | 2% | 1% |
| Israel | 2% | 1% |
| Education | 1% | 0% |
| Taxes | 2% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 1% | 1% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 8% | 5% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 3% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 27% | 22% | 25% |
| Immigration / Border security | 10% | 19% | 29% |
| Inflation | 17% | 16% | 16% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 4% | 9% | 4% |
| Healthcare | 7% | 4% | 1% |
| Climate change / Environment | 5% | 3% | 4% |
| Democracy | 3% | 3% | 2% |
| National security | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 2% | 2% | 0% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 2% | 2% | 1% |
| Government spending | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| Crime | 3% | 1% | 1% |
| Israel | 1% | 2% | 0% |
| Education | 1% | 1% | 0% |
| Taxes | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 1% | 1% | 2% |
| Social security / Medicare | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 6% | 8% | 4% |
| Don’t know | 4% | 3% | 2% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 23% | 31% | 23% | 19% |
| Immigration / Border security | 7% | 12% | 20% | 29% |
| Inflation | 17% | 19% | 16% | 13% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 6% | 8% | 6% | 7% |
| Healthcare | 9% | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Climate change / Environment | 4% | 5% | 3% | 4% |
| Democracy | 2% | 2% | 4% | 4% |
| National security | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 1% | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 2% | 3% | 1% | 1% |
| Government spending | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
| Crime | 3% | 1% | 2% | 0% |
| Israel | 6% | 1% | 1% | 0% |
| Education | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Taxes | 0% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 0% | 0% | 2% | 1% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 8% | 4% | 7% | 8% |
| Don’t know | 4% | 3% | 3% | 3% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 30% | 22% | 21% | 20% | 29% | 23% |
| Immigration / Border security | 17% | 17% | 20% | 20% | 19% | 10% |
| Inflation | 26% | 18% | 17% | 13% | 16% | 12% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 0% | 4% | 5% | 13% | 6% | 11% |
| Healthcare | 1% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 5% | 4% |
| Climate change / Environment | 4% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 4% |
| Democracy | 0% | 1% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 7% |
| National security | 0% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 5% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 4% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 0% |
| Government spending | 0% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 4% |
| Crime | 0% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 2% | 0% |
| Israel | 0% | 0% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| Education | 0% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Taxes | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 4% |
| Corruption | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% |
| Trump’s crimes | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Social security / Medicare | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 5% | 7% | 6% | 8% | 5% | 10% |
| Don’t know | 6% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 2% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 22% | 29% | 20% | 22% |
| Immigration / Border security | 24% | 17% | 10% | 8% |
| Inflation | 20% | 15% | 19% | 10% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 5% | 4% | 7% | 16% |
| Healthcare | 2% | 5% | 10% | 4% |
| Climate change / Environment | 4% | 3% | 4% | 4% |
| Democracy | 2% | 2% | 4% | 7% |
| National security | 3% | 0% | 3% | 1% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 1% | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
| Government spending | 1% | 2% | 3% | 1% |
| Crime | 1% | 2% | 0% | 2% |
| Israel | 0% | 1% | 4% | 5% |
| Education | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Taxes | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Corruption | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 0% | 1% | 1% | 4% |
| Social security / Medicare | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 6% | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Don’t know | 2% | 5% | 2% | 2% |
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| Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The economy | 24% | 27% | 22% | 19% |
| Immigration / Border security | 27% | 19% | 5% | 9% |
| Inflation | 19% | 18% | 12% | 11% |
| Abortion / Women’s rights | 2% | 6% | 15% | 5% |
| Healthcare | 3% | 4% | 5% | 11% |
| Climate change / Environment | 4% | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Democracy | 1% | 3% | 6% | 3% |
| National security | 1% | 2% | 2% | 0% |
| Housing / Homelessness | 1% | 1% | 2% | 4% |
| Gun violence / Gun control | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Government spending | 1% | 2% | 1% | 4% |
| Crime | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
| Israel | 0% | 0% | 4% | 8% |
| Education | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
| Taxes | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Corruption | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
| Trump’s crimes | 0% | 1% | 3% | 0% |
| Social security / Medicare | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Ukraine | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 6% | 4% | 11% | 9% |
| Don’t know | 4% | 3% | 2% | 6% |
