26% of registered voters said that healthcare was the single most important issue when deciding their vote for president. Fast-forward 8 months, and the same KFF poll for September shows that nearly a third of the electorate now have the economy as the key deciding factor (32%).
Healthcare has dropped to fifth place, with just 10%. Look a little deeper, though, and issues pertaining to health pervade almost every key factor influencing voter turnout in 2020.
How could they not? After all, this is the year of the coronavirus pandemic — a singular global health crisis that has contributed directly to the sharpest contraction in the U.S.