Three Times As Many People Say the Economy Should be Priority #1 for the Government as Terrorism

What a difference a housing crisis makes. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll out today shows that three times as many people say the federal government should make jobs and the economy the first priority as terrorism. The numbers have been trending that way for a while, but wow.

If you dig into the poll you'll see that jobs/economy had 23% to terrorism's 8%. What's more eye opening is that if you combine jobs/economy with the next highest response which was energy/gas price at 20% then you end up at 43%. That's over five times more than terrorism.

Here's why you care: You may say, ok yeah, but polls are polls. Nah, the poll is about you, but why you care is because of who reads the polls: Politicians. They are reading and they are listening. That's why former Navy pilot/Senator/Republican Presidential Candidate, John McCain gets treated in the Politico to this headline: "McCain Struggles to Overcome Economy Gap".

In short, there will be many stump speeches from both Sen. McCain and his Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama on the issue of economy. The key will be to look past the headlines, and really consider the outcomes of their proposed policies. Why You Care is looking forward to more details from both of their camps.

You can count on us parsing the verbiage. In the meantime, look at the both of the pending VP picks and ask - hmmmm, did concern over the economy play into this?