March 9-12, 2013: Democracy Corps/Women۪s Voices. Women Vote/Voter Participation Center Poll—Nationwide poll on the most important issues to focus on
Leaders from both parties say we face big choices that will determine the future of the middle class. Which two of the following are the most important things for usto focus on?…Protecting retirement benefits, like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, reducing the federal deficit and government spending, cutting ineffective programs and wasteful special-interest tax breaks, making sure pre-school and college education are affordable, fixing transportation and economic infrastructure to create jobs, making sure all now have affordable health insurance, increasing the minimum wage and ability of workers to get higher wages, cutting taxes for all taxpayers, ensuring women get equal pay and helping families with paid sick leave and child care
37% Protecting retirement benefits, like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
35% Reducing the federal deficit and government spending
27% Cutting ineffective programs and wasteful special-interest tax breaks
25% Making sure pre-school and college education are affordable
16% Fixing transportation and economic infrastructure to create jobs
14% Making sure all now have affordable health insurance
13% Increasing the minimum wage and ability of workers to get higher wages
13% Cutting taxes for all taxpayers
9% Ensuring women get equal pay and helping families with paid sick leave and child care
5% All (Vol.)
* Other (Vol.)
* None (Vol.)
* Don’t know/Refused
Survey by Democracy Corps,Women’s Voices. Women Vote, Voter Participation Center. Methodology: Conductedby Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, March 9 – March 12, 2013 and based on 950telephone interviews. Sample: National voters. Voters are registered voters whovoted in the 2012 election/weren’t registered/ineligible/too young to vote.[USGREEN.13DCMAR.R41]
Formal Citation
Democracy Corps/Women’sVoices. Women Vote/Voter Participation Center Poll, Mar, 2013. RetrievedApr-16-2013 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public OpinionResearch, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html