Most Important Voting Issues for 2008 Election: Survey Results

The following article uses the results from a survey that I performed over the last three months. 2,000 voters were surveyed for this study. The breakdown of the survey group reflected the national averages fro race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, economic comfort, age, and political affiliation. The Rutgers's Formula for applicants was used.

For this coming Presidential Election, there are many issues that people will be taking into consideration when voting for the next President of the United States. I decided that it would be a good idea to see which voting issues were the most important to people.

Each question in the survey about voting issues had three possible answers. A voter could answer that he or she was going to base a vote on an issue, not base a vote on an issue, or that he or she had not made a decision yet about the topic. They were also asked to rate the voting issues from most important to the least important.

Health Care Reform

This popular topic appeared to be a significant voting issue with the people that took the survey. Eighty-two percent of the people that took the survey stated that they would be taking a candidate's stance on health care reform into consideration when voting in the 2008 Presidential Election. Seven percent said that they would not, and eleven percent were undecided.

Tax Breaks

The closest margin in the survey came under the question of taking a candidate's proposed tax breaks into consideration when voting. Forty-seven percent stated that this was a voting issue that they would be taking into account when voting in the Presidential Election. Forty-eight percent stated that this would not be a voting issue for them, while five percent were undecided at this time.

Gay Marriage

Gay marriage was another close race in the minds of people as they were preparing to vote in the 2008 presidential Election. Forty stated that they would be casting a vote for a candidate that took a stance on gay marriage that they agreed with. Forty-eight percent stated that gay marriage was not a voting issue that they had in mind at the current time. Twelve percent were undecided.