It's a snapshot of what voters were thinking about before this past weekend: basically, not Afghanistan. While other pollsters ask about this in different ways, “terrorism” had fallen off as a worry in polling years ago, no matter who was president. Immigration and the economy were the top issues for self-identified Republicans when the weekend started, followed by crime. Just 4 percent of Republicans listed either “terrorism and extremism” or “war and foreign conflicts” as top issues, compared with just 1 percent of Democrats. That's our baseline for the next edition of the poll, this weekend.

Source: Washington Post August 17, 2021 22:07 UTC