Social Issues More Important to Voters
 
Social Issues More Important to Voters
Written By Micah Clark   |   09.24.15
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This will shock the political establishment as much as it probably shocked CNN. The cable news outlet has a new poll that finds that the importance of social issues to voters has jumped in recent years.  (The political leadership of the party routinely advises Republican candidates and officials to avoid social issues.)

The poll finds that voters care deeply about the culture and they are far more concerned about social issues than they were four years ago.  In 2011, for example, 22 percent of voters said protecting the 2nd Amendment was “extremely” important.  That number has nearly doubled with 42 percent now saying the protection of gun rights is extremely important.

Four years ago, 20 percent of voters felt so strongly about abortion that they deemed it extremely important.  That number has now climbed to 27 percent. (This may be because of the undercover videos exposing the dismemberment and sale of baby parts.)

Concern over illegal aliens has also jumped from 29 percent who called it extremely important four years ago to 39 percent today.

Micah Clark
In 1989 Micah Clark graduated from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Micah interned as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives’ Republican staff and later became an Assistant Campaign Manager for a State Senator. Micah then served as a legislative assistant for Citizens Concerned for the Constitution. He served as the Indiana Family Institute’s Director of Public Policy, and later as its Executive Director, throughout the 1990’s. Micah is the only person to have served with all three of Indiana’s top statewide pro-family organizations. In November 2001, Micah became the Executive...
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