What do you think are the most important issues to voters?

[The_Animus]

Whatever the right wing media propaganda and the social media rage engagement algorithm lies to people repeatedly about until they believe it.

ETA - Here is John Oliver giving an example of Fox "News" doing the above regarding "Migrant Crime".

 

[arthwollipot]

Misanthropy is not a solution to social issues.

It is, however, a solid foundation upon which to build a policy of elimination of useless mouths and anti-social elements.

Those mouths are actually people.

 

[Brainster]

Inflation.
Immigration.
Housing Cost (as a homeowner I love it, but it's problematic for younger people starting out).

 

[theprestige]

Those mouths are actually people.

Now you understand my problem with misanthropy.

 

[Worm]

To be honest, I think the major issues for a lot of voters would appear to be - which party have I voted for in the past, who did my parents vote for, who do my peer group vote for?

 

[arthwollipot]

Now you understand my problem with misanthropy.

I think misanthropy should be an important issue for voters. Too many politicians dehumanise potential voters.

 

[ahhell]

I forgot to mention, how you pronounce Kamala, got to be third for Dems.

 

[ahhell]

Inflation.
Immigration.
Housing Cost (as a homeowner I love it, but it's problematic for younger people starting out).

Serious response now, that's one I forgot, it should be but I don't think it showed up on polling I saw.

 

[Emily's Cat]

I think misanthropy should be an important issue for voters. Too many politicians dehumanise potential voters.

Too many non-politician pundits, partisans, and supporters dehumanise potential voters, but I rarely see you (or others) on here speaking out against that... as long as the people being dehumanized are people you think are bad.

 

[Emily's Cat]

Serious response now, that's one I forgot, it should be but I don't think it showed up on polling I saw.

I assumed that housing cost was part and parcel of inflation.

 

[Lukraak_Sisser]

I assumed that housing cost was part and parcel of inflation.

Not necessarily, I'm not sure how it's organized in the states, but in the Netherlands it used to be the government mandated that housing companies needed to build a certain amount of affordable housing per project.

In their trust in the hand of the free market this was dropped. And since then companies stopped building affordable housing, as there was less profit in there.
Now that this is causing all sorts of, easily predicted, problems as finding a house is starting to be difficult the same parties that dropped the policy blame everyone but themselves.

The same with dropping or decreasing rent control.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

the Free Market works only if any attempts to hijack it are smacked down.

 

[Brainster]

I assumed that housing cost was part and parcel of inflation.

It is considered in the calc of CPI, but home prices rise and fall much more dramatically than bread, milk and eggs. Where I live home prices have more than tripled in the last 13 years or so, far higher than the rate of inflation. Rentals haven't quite kept pace with the housing prices, but they are well ahead of inflation.

 

[Tero]

Somehow the voters think the president is responsible for the price of gas, hamburger and rent. The only way to bring those down is to cut taxes for corporations and billionaires, right?

 

[Tero]

NYT chart in this link
https://www.threads.net/@esa55jarvi...QGzKiZugTexzYpXjb47wKW-vstyKrtbvcXzxUO3rFcmEA

 

[gabeygoat]

For which group? Republicans, Democrats, or Independents?



Honestly, I thought my OP was fairly clear. Maybe I was wrong.

Here's what I'm asking:

What do each of you think the top 3 priorities are for Republicans?
What do each of you think the top 3 priorities are for Democrats?
What do each of you think the top 3 priorities are for Independents?

What do you think would turn a Republican off from a candidate that supported their top 3 priorities?
What do you think would turn a Democrat off from a candidate that supported their top 3 priorities?
What do you think would turn an Independent off from a candidate that supported their top 3 priorities?

I only gave a single example, to set the stage. I was trying not to anchor the discussion.

following the assignment...
My guesses..
Republicans: Immigration, Anti-LGBTQ+, Especially the T, Inflation
Democrats: Reproductive rights, Inflation, Democratic institutions
Independants: Inflation, Cost of living, Things being 'normal.'

Republican turn off: anything 'diverse.'
Democratic turnoff: Trumpism
Independent turnoff: I don't really have a good guess as of yet.

 

[bigred]

As has been demonstrated in various posts here, the issues are tragically secondary at best. It's all about standing up for one's given political party and hating on "the other side" for the sake of it because their side is all that is good and holy about the world and the other side is the root of all evil. Who the candidates are and their stance on the issues are just window dressing to spin doctor that mindset. And one "side" is no better than the other; just two sides of the same loony coin.

lol @ this country

 

[stanfr]

It's the economy, stupid. Always has been. And in general, the economy has fared better under Democrats than Republicans. Biden inherited a covid economy where virtually everyone predicted a major recession--it has not happened. Inflation rate keeps dropping. The stock market has done really well despite Trump insisting it would collapse under Biden.

I am really amused by the Republicans who counter Dem's accusations about deportations etc by pointing out that Obama deported more illegals than anyone, as if that somehow makes them seem better on the issue. And then of course the major immigration bill that was buried by the wannabe dictator because it would hurt him politically. Of course the GOP's immigration 'policy' is based in raqcism, they make no effor to hide it, conservative media keeps 'replacement theory' front and center. Ironically, having owned a small business in a town full of big whig conservatives and trumpists, I can tell you that the fat cats really love illegals and immigrants for the cheap labor it gives them.

And incidentally, as an independent who espouses 'progressive' ideals, I am actually very anti illegal immigration and immigration in general, but that's because I'm a hardocre environmentalist and I personally believe that overpopulation is/has been the single threat to our species, greater than climate change since it essentially is the root of it. Pack enough animals into a small space and bad things inevitably happen. Neither party is gonna address that issue.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Republicans:

1) The Mexican Border.
2) "Wokeness".
3) Unemployment/Economy.

A Republican would vote against a candidate who had these as policies if the candidate expressed an opinion on foreign policy that did not jibe with the Republican's own views.



Democrats:

1) Environment.
2) Healthcare.
3) Unemployment/Economy.

A Democrat would vote against a candidate who had these as policies if the candidate expressed an opinion on foreign policy that did not jibe with the Republican's own views.


Independents.

1) Healthcare.
2) Small Government.
3) Environment.

An Independent would vote against a candidate who had these as policies if the candidate expressed an opinion on foreign policy that did not jibe with the Republican's own views.

 

[angrysoba]

Republicans:

1) The Mexican Border.
2) "Wokeness".
3) Unemployment/Economy.

A Republican would vote against a candidate who had these as policies if the candidate expressed an opinion on foreign policy that did not jibe with the Republican's own views.



Democrats:

1) Environment.
2) Healthcare.
3) Unemployment/Economy.

A Democrat would vote against a candidate who had these as policies if the candidate expressed an opinion on foreign policy that did not jibe with the Republican's own views.


Independents.

1) Healthcare.
2) Small Government.
3) Environment.

An Independent would vote against a candidate who had these as policies if the candidate expressed an opinion on foreign policy that did not jibe with the Republican's own views.

Surely that would suggest that foreign policy is the main consideration for all voters above and beyond specific policies.

I think foreign policy is one of the least important areas for most voters.