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Monday, April 28, 2008 --- 88 days ago http://www.healthpopuli.com/2008/04/whats-on-voters-minds-economy-war.html
| I just returned from voting in the State of Pennsylvania primary. My husband and I decided to go when the polls opened at 7 am, and the line was out the door of our local fire company, our polling place. We expect record voter turnout in Pennsylvania, which is a good thing. I've been analyzing the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 . Health care as the top 1 or 2 issue among voters has fallen to #3 after the Economy and Iraq. This is a big shift since Kaiser conducted its poll in December 2007, when the Economy ranked #3: then, 23% of American voters selected the economy as one of the top two issues for the 2008 presidential election; by February, that percentage nearly doubled to 45% of voters who cited the economy as a top-two issue for the November election. The Economy is now ranked #1 in the KFF poll. In that time, two major economic events hit the American pocketbook: the sub-prime mortgage crisis and Bear Stearns bailout; and, the price of gas per gallon, which rose to an average of $3.50 this week. On April 8, The Energy Information Administration forecasted that the price of gas will increase an average of 55 cents this year over 2007. That's a 20% increase over the average $2.81 price of 2007. The image on the left is from a Chicago Tribune blog post from 2006, showing real prescience on the part of that paper! I wrote in the inaugural post of Health Populi in September 2007, Heal ... |
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