As Always, Economy Remains Top Voter Issue

Publication Date: 10/12/2025 5:00 AM CST

As Always, Economy Remains Top Voter Issue

Publication: 10/12/2025 5:00 AM CST

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When asked to respond in their own words, 33% of voters say the economy is the most important issue right now.
- Among 2,000 Registered Voters, politics (22%), immigration (14%), and social issues (9%) also ranked highly.
- Foreign policy (6%), healthcare (5%), and climate (2%) are far less commonly at the top of voters minds.
For Republicans, the top three issues identified as most important were economy (37%), immigration (22%), and politics (14%).
- For Democrats, the top three issues were politics (31%), the economy (30%), and social issues (10%).
- These results are following a trend seen in our September 24th poll, where the economy is on top, but has steadily decreased from early August highs of 40%.
Napolitan News routinely ask an open-end question which is categorized and summarized using Jigsaw's open-source Sensemaker tool, built on to of Gemini, Google's most advanced AI, so that voters can answer the question in their own words.
There are many ways to ask about the importance of issues. Napolitan also asks voters to choose their top issue from a list.
- Consistently, in the both formats, economic issues are the top issues.