Health Care, Iraq, Jobs Are Top Issues in Working Families Vote 2008 Forum

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Health Care, Iraq, Jobs Are Top Issues in Working Families Vote 2008 Forum

by Mike Hall, May 11, 2007

What issues will get working family voters to the polls in November 2008? That’s what the AFL-CIO’s new interactive Working Families Vote 2008 website asked visitors earlier this month. Now you’ve made your voices heard, sometimes quite adamantly.

Opinions varied widely, but topping the issues agenda are health care, the war in Iraq, jobs and the economy, trade and environmental concerns.

(Click here to read all the responses and here to answer the newest forum question: What must presidential candidates do about the nation’s health care crisis?)

Our unscientific analysis shows health care as the most-cited concern among visitors, with 44 percent of those who responded saying it’s an issue that will turn them out to vote. Most are calling for guaranteed, affordable health care for all. For example, Lentz writes:

The definition of the best health care has to take into account the availability and cost to all!!!!

Ending the war in Iraq was brought up by 39 percent of respondents. June Rosenberg says “ending the war and foreign affairs” are her most important issues. IROC_Z says:

Getting out of IRAQ Now!!!!! We never should have gone in the first place.


FULL story at link.