46% Rate Media ‘Poor’ in Covering Most Important Issues
Inflation and illegal immigration top the list of issues voters consider the most important in the presidential election, and the news media don’t get very good grades for their coverage of those issues.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 32% of Likely U.S. Voters say inflation will be the most important issue in this year’s presidential election. Twenty-three percent (23%) think illegal immigration is the most important issue, while 18% believe the top issue is abortion rights. Other issues rank in single digits as being most important – violent crime (7%), climate change (6%), the war in Ukraine (5%), the Israel-Palestinian conflict (4%) and student loan debt (2%). (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,108 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 2 and 5-6, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research.
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