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

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National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
February 5-8, 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

84%

13%

1%

1%

1%

National Security/
War on Terror

62%

29%

7%

2%

1%

War in Iraq

37%

40%

19%

3%

1%

Immigration

50%

30%

15%

3%

2%

Government Ethics/ Corruption

72%

20%

2%

1%

4%

Taxes

63%

26%

8%

2%

2%

Health Care

60%

23%

12%

3%

1%

Social Security

59%

30%

10%

1%

1%

Education

57%

31%

9%

1%

1%

Abortion

38%

22%

24%

13%

3%

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