Poll: Republicans Hold Advantage Over Dems on Voter Trust to Handle Top Issues

Bridget Johnson | 8:06 AM on October 13, 2014

A new Gallup poll released today found that voters are indicating more trust for Republicans to handle the issues that they rank as most important.

Seventy-five percent of voters said equal pay for women is extremely or very important to their vote, and Dems have a strong advantage over the GOP on the issue. On climate change, though, where Dems have a 20-point advantage, only 40 percent of voters said it was important to their vote.

Republicans came out ahead not just on economic issues and immigration, but have a 19-point trust advantage when it comes to dealing with the ISIS threat.

The parties are essentially tied on Obamacare and jobs.

Gallup notes that the GOP has made gains on trust to handle the economy:

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

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Poll: Republicans Hold Advantage Over Dems on Voter Trust to Handle Top Issues

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