In Their Own Words: Voters Still Rank Economy as Top Issue

Publication Date: 11/03/2025 5:00 AM CST

In Their Own Words: Voters Still Rank Economy as Top Issue

Publication: 11/03/2025 5:00 AM CST

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When asked to respond in their own words, 41% of voters say the economy is the most important issue right now.
- Among 2,000 Registered Voters, politics (21%), immigration (13%), and social issues (7%) also ranked highly.
- Healthcare (6%), foreign policy (3%), 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 (43%), immigration (21%), and politics (13%).
- For Democrats, the top three issues were economy (40%), politics (28%), and social (9%).
- Economy is showing an increase of 6 points from our October 22nd poll, bucking the trend of the economy steadily decreasing from its early August highs of 40%.
There are many ways to ask about the importance of issues. Napolitan News routinely asks an open-ended question that is categorized and summarized by using Jigsaw's open-source Sensemaker tool, which built on Gemini, Google's most advanced AI, so voters can answer the question in their own words.
- Consistently, in both the list and open-ended formats, economic issues are the top issues.
- Our most recent list format results are from our October 1st poll.

This data is from a Napolitan News Service survey of 2,000 Registered Voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen, October 27-30, 2025. RMG Research, Inc., conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1.