POLITICO-Harvard poll: Pandemic fallout, racial reckoning are deeply personal to 2020 voters

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It’s the economy, again. But it’s also the coronavirus pandemic, the upheaval it's brought to kids’ education and a nationwide reckoning on racial discrimination that’s top of mind for likely voters, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll gauging their attitudes heading into the presidential election.

While the economy is typically a top voter issue in presidential elections, it’s taken on new urgency with millions out of work because of the pandemic. The new poll shows that unlike some past elections, issues that are deeply personal to Americans' everyday lives, rather than policy debates that can be more abstract, rank among the most important priorities that will influence voters.

“Issues which are broader and further away from people’s lives may not have the same impact as they would have at another time when you didn’t have an epidemic and a recession,” said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who designed the poll.

The poll was conducted before the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which has renewed attention on the future of abortion rights and Obamacare and will change the campaign dynamic in ways that can’t be mapped in advance. But President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are certainly aiming to animate their base by filling a Supreme Court seat, potentially solidifying a conservative majority that could undercut or overturn the constitutional right to an abortion established by Roe v. Wade nearly 50 years ago.

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