Global Warming - Poll on Importance

[Guest guest]

Hi y'all,

 

Below are results of an CNN Opinion Research Corporation poll on what

issues will be the most important to voters in the coming election.

I know that many of you are probably not signed up for the CNN news

and I think you must do this to open the link .. maybe not.

 

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/05/09/rel6e.pdf

 

Since I'm not sure I'll give the highlites .. like I said in an

earlier post .. Global Warming/Climate Change is not the most

important issue to me now .. there are others that are more critical

today. Seems that a lot of folks agree with me. From top to bottom

the issues are:

 

Extremely Very Moderately Not That No

Important Important Important Important Opinion

 

Iraq 51% 37% 9% 2% *

 

Terrorism 45% 35% 14% 6% *

 

Education 44% 37% 16% 3% *

 

Health 43% 35% 18% 4% *

Care

 

Gas 43% 31% 16% 10% 1%

Prices

 

Clean 41% 36% 17% 7% *

Government

 

Iran 38% 39% 17% 5% 1%

 

Soc. Scty 38% 37% 20% 4% *

& Medicare

 

Economy 33% 46% 16% 4% *

 

Illegal 31% 32% 26% 10% 1%

Immig.

 

Taxes 30% 40% 23% 6% 1%

 

Budget 30% 24% 26% 9% 2%

Deficit

 

Global 27% 26% 27% 19% 1%

Warming

 

Abortion 27% 24% 24% 24% 1%

 

Gun 26% 26% 29% 17% 2%

Policy

 

Stem Cell 20% 28% 28% 21% 3%

Research

 

Policies 13% 15% 30% 41% 1%

toward Gay

& Lesbian

 

 

There is a lotta Gallup Poll data on the economy .. not gonna list it.

 

But important I think is this ..

 

Do you think America should provide a National Health Insurance

Program for all Americans, even if this would require higher taxes?

The second set of figures (to the right) is the reply to the same

question but it applies to children under 18.

 

Yes .............. 64% ........... 73%

No ............... 35% ........... 25%

No Opinion ....... 2% ........... 2%

 

That shows (at least to me) that they did a pretty good random sample,

not concentrating on any one socio-economic group.

 

There is a lot of more information on the poll .. and maybe folks can

get into the link above.

 

Point is .. I reckon .. we now sorta know which direction the Democrat

and Republican candidates are gonna focus their attention .. at least

during the campaign .. and Global Warming ain't up there at the top.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com