Issues Important to Voters

[Sandy]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/be-prep ... vp-AAD7Bz1

Not surprising that health care gets top billing on this particular list. Border security not so much.

And if you want a real sign of where this thing is headed as it moves toward 2020, it's West Virginia. Not exactly a bellwether, since Trump got 69% of the vote there in 2016. But he's not polling anywhere near that high in West Virginia these days. Bernie Sanders, yes, the elder, Jewish, Northeastern, Liberal, Democratic, "Socialist" candidate for President, from Vermont has somehow managed to capture the interest of the people of the Mountain state. He's been down there several times conducting town hall meetings talking about universal, government operated, single payer health care. They're listening.

I hear all the arguments about how the costs won't change much, how the profit margins for insurance are small percentages, all of that. Yet Canada and most of Western Europe have government operated, single payer systems, or "socialized medicine" at the very least, their costs are half of those in the US , the quality of care is just as good, better in some countries, and the medical provider staff, doctors, nurses, etc., earn better wages. At my age, looking at medicare, its a big concern.

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour-with-brian-williams

Monmouth Poll, 59% of voters firm in their assertion that they will not vote for Trump.