Abortion Was A Top Pick For Many Voters In Tuesday’s Election But Ranked Lower Than Economic Concerns | KFF

Abortion drove many voters to the polls on Tuesday, but not always for Vice President Kamala Harris, as economic concerns weighed heavily on voters’ minds, according to polling data from to KFF and the Associated Press.

Almost a quarter of voters said abortion was the “single most important issue” in their vote, with almost 4 in 10 saying it had a big impact on their decision to leave. (similar to the percentages who said it in the 2022 midterm elections), and more than half said it had a big impact on the people they supported, according to the Associated Press’s VoteCast survey. In partnership with AP, KFF added additional questions to the 2024 candidate survey to measure how voters rated health issues at the polls.

But Vice President Harris’ strong position on abortion was not enough to outweigh his negative views on the economy and immigration, issues President-Elect Donald Trump has been preoccupied with, polling data show. a. Forty percent of voters said higher prices for gas, groceries and other goods were the most important factor in their choices, including 51% of Republicans, 41% of independents, and 28 % of Democrats.

The KFF poll shows that Trump did better than Harris among the majority of voters who reported being most concerned about the price of groceries, gas and housing. He also did better than Harris among more than half of voters who said they were most concerned about health care costs.

In addition, on the issue of abortion, Trump managed to gather a small but significant vote among those who voted in favor of abortion in their country, winning four states where voters and those who voted to expand or protect access to abortion. Trump won support from nearly three in ten voters who voted for abortion access in the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona, a similar share in Missouri, and a quarter of Montana.

In an interactive online presentation, KFF examines the role that abortion, the economy and health care costs have played in the 2024 election, providing an in-depth look at patients’ views on health issues while they are still making their decisions about whether to vote and who to vote for. for.

KFF provides scores and analysis of the AP VoteCast summary test and these supplemental questions at the state and national levels.

The dashboard includes:

• An interactive map that provides detailed information on countries with abortion-related measures.
• Analysis and charts that examine voter influences and the impact of concerns about abortion policy and health care costs nationally and across states, including a breakdown of data by lobbying groups and political parties.
• A curated set of charts that provide critical analysis among small groups of voters on topics such as abortion measures, health care as an economic issue, and voter attitudes on the most important issues facing the US .

The AP VoteCast is a 48-state and national survey of more than 115,000 voters conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press, Fox News, PBS NewsHour, and The Wall Street Journal starting Oct. 28 and ending when the polls close on Nov. 5, 2024, in English and Spanish. The state survey was conducted using NORC’s AmeriSpeak panel, while individual state surveys were conducted from a random sample of state voter files and from registered voters selected from online panels. -range non-probability. More information on the AP VoteCast process is available here.