Health care tops list of political issues BDN readers said they care about most
The BDN asked readers to rank 14 issues in order of importance to them as part of a "citizen agenda" model of covering elections that the newspaper is adopting in 2020. It involves seeking input from readers on topics they are interested in and focusing coverage on those topics.
We heard back from 509 readers who answered the survey in print or online. That group was not randomly selected, so it is not scientific or necessarily representative of our readership. Here are the results and how we're going to use them in the short term and longer term.
Health care, corruption or ethics and the economy led the pack overall. We asked readers to self-identify as
By that measure, health care was the most important issue overall, followed in order by corruption or ethics, jobs and the economy, immigration, taxes or spending, education and support for or opposition to President
Corruption or ethics was the only topic to crack the top five issues for both parties, while
What are the next steps? In the short term, the BDN will use some of this data to prioritize issue coverage ahead of the Democratic presidential primary on
We will also be doing an audit of the newspaper's recent coverage in all of these areas. While it would be difficult and perhaps unwise to weigh coverage exactly according to these reader interests, this exercise may give us a window into blind spots. We will report back on those results.
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