Issues Poll Redux: The Most Important Issue of Campaign 2004 Is:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[Maple]

1. Economy/Iraq

Both are intertwined.

[fugue]

2. Close second . . .

I said Iraq, but civil liberties are a very close second.

Am I alone in thinking the "cultural issues" are really part of "civil liberties"? They've always seemed so to me.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. You're right, but otherwise you wind up with just one category.

[fugue]

5. Is there some minimum number of categories needed for a poll?

I've never posted one. It just seems to me that unless there is, what is the problem with just one category?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. There wouldn't be much point in a 'poll' of choices if there's only one

choice now, would there be? Although this is certainly the model Bush is shooting for in NOV...

[Suzi Creamcheese]

8. well, it would make it easy to decide what was going to win

:-) just kidding

[fugue]

9. I wasn't saying combine *all* the categories

I was saying combine the "cultural issues" category with "civil liberties." That would only reduce your list by one category.

[tedoll78]

3. The US Supreme Court.

We're not just voting for John Kerry - we're voting for his court nominees.

Right now, the average term for a justice sitting on the high court is approximately 18 years. If November's winner gets a mere two appointees, and if those appointees hold on this trend, we're looking at 36 years of court decisionmaking in addition to the 4-year presidential term.

That's 40 years of policy decisions right there.

[cheshire]

6. The combo please, they are all important to Americans.