Economic concerns featured prominently in U.S. adults’ midterm priorities: an October survey of 1,119 respondents found household costs and the broader economy were cited at nearly equal rates.
85% of respondents cited the broader economy, while 84% pointed to living costs; 64% also listed the war with Iran. The top two percentages were separated by one point, less than the poll’s 3.9-percentage-point margin of sampling error.
Conducted Oct. 8-12, the poll asked whether respondents considered each issue important to their midterm vote. It did not measure how strongly a particular issue affected any respondent’s individual choice.
An Ipsos survey for Reuters, conducted Aug. 28-31, found that 47% of registered voters put living costs first when asked what would weigh most in their midterm choice, according to EconoTimes’ earlier coverage of voters’ cost-of-living priorities.
