Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterExit polls: Most cite economy as top election issue
Published 11/4/2008 by emilyes at CNN Political Ticker
(CNN) – Sixty-two percent of voters polled Tuesday said the economy was their top election concern, according to early national exit polling.
It was far ahead of the second-place issue, the Iraq war, which was named as the top concern of 10 percent of voters polled.
Those who picked the Iraq war as their top issue mostly [...]
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