Contrary to ongoing attempts by the administration to refocus the public's attention on such focal points as guns, an imminent external cybersecurity threat (until it was revealed that the biggest cyber terrorist is the NSA itself), and climate change, the three still remain, pardon the pan, at the cold end of the spectrum when it comes to what issues most concern the US public. On the other end, for one decade and counting, the "top priority" for the US public was and continues to be "the economy", stupid.
The term cognitive dissonance was invented for situations like this. Democrats are super-concerned with the economy, unemployment, education, Medicare, and health care, yet they've been calling the shots in Congress for seven years and controlling the White House for five.
Yet they haven't quite figured out that it's their own policies that suck: from the teacher's unions monopolistic control of education to Obamacare's chaotic dismantling of the health care industry.
In other words, the fact that Democrats list these issues as their biggest concerns are tacit admissions that their own party's policies are utter failures.
Oh: and someone alert John Boehner, Paul Ryan and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who seem painfully unaware of how unpopular some kind of "compromise" on illegal immigration will be. Secure the border, dimwits, then let's talk.
Democrats are 69% concerned about guns, but only 63% concerned about crime. That there says it all.
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