According to a new Rasmussen Reports national phone and online survey, 32 percent of likely U.S. voters said illegal immigration is the most important issue for the next President to solve. Twenty-seven percent said rising prices were the most pressing issue.
Rasmussen said the survey was taken just before election day. Fifty-nine percent of voters said they are not better off than four years ago. Just 33 percent said yes.
Fifty-two percent of Democrats said they were better off than they were four years ago, but just 14 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of unaffiliated voters agreed. Seventy-nine percent of Republicans and 59 percent of unaffiliated voters said they were not better off, which 39 percent of Democrats agreed with.
Forty-nine percent of Republicans and 31 percent of unaffiliated voters said illegal immigration is the most important issue. Eighteen percent of Democrats agreed. Thirty percent of Republicans, 31 percent of unaffiliated voters and 21 percent of Democrats cited rising gas prices as the top issue.
Just 24 percent of likely voters said protecting our democracy is the most important job and 14 percent said abortion rights were.
