American Public Media has been tracking results from the Select A Candidate survey to better understand the concerns of voters. The following report indicates the issues Select A Candidate users identified as most and least important to the election. The data reflect the aggregate responses for Select A Candidate users from Illinois.

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There have been 2566 responses for Illinois.
Top candidate matches for Illinois, ranked by score

Barack Obama - 14.5
John McCain - 10.5
Ralph Nader - 9.4
Bob Barr - 6.2
Issue importance indicated by respondents

Key: 
 
 Not Important 
 
 Somewhat Important 
 
 Very Important 

Issue Respondent percentage
Sub-prime mortgage
7% 69% 24%
Iraq
42% 58%
Afghanistan
1% 61% 38%
Immigration
2% 58% 40%
The mortgage crisis
4% 66% 30%
Taxes
3% 56% 41%
Education
2% 54% 44%
Social Security
3% 62% 35%
Health care
1% 53% 46%
S-CHIP
5% 73% 22%
Abortion
6% 52% 42%
Energy
2% 62% 36%
Death penalty
4% 69% 27%
Gun control
3% 64% 33%
Climate change
4% 59% 37%
G.I. Bill Expansion
6% 70% 24%

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