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Toplines - Importance of Issues - March 5-8, 2010

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
April 4-7, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

1* I’m now going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please tell me how important that issue is in terms of how you will vote in the next Congressional election.

Issue

Very important

Somewhat important

Not very important

Not at all important

Not sure

Economy

81%

16%

1%

0%

3%

National Security/
War on Terror

58%

31%

8%

2%

2%

War in Iraq

37%

42%

15%

5%

2%

Immigration

47%

31%

16%

4%

3%

Government Ethics/ Corruption

84%

10%

3%

1%

1%

Taxes

58%

30%

10%

1%

1%

Health Care

72%

16%

7%

3%

1%

Social Security

66%

24%

8%

2%

0%

Education

60%

29%

7%

3%

1%

Abortion

39%

23%

23%

13%

3%

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence