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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 FORD • LINCOLN • HYUNDAI 700 7th AVENUE • LONGVIEW, WA • 360-423-4321 LINCOLN LUXURY HOMETOWN SERVICE Lifetime roadside assistance with your new Lincoln 2016 Lincoln MKC Retail Cash: $2,250 0% APR for 60 months OAC AP Photo/J. David Ake A member of a production crew walks out debate hall at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Sunday, the night before Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Re- publican presidential candidate Donald Trump will meet in their first presidential debate. Starting at Most in US frustrated $32,720 over presidential race 2016 Lincoln MKZ Sedan Retail Cash: $3,500 Poll inds most aren’t feeling proud, hopeful 0% APR for 60 months OAC By LAURIE KELLMAN and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON — Carol Jones knows what she wants to hear Hillary Clinton and Don- ald Trump discuss during their irst televised debate: educa- tion and jobs. She’s far from sure which candidate will earn her vote on Election Day. “All we see is the cat ight- ing,” says the Shirley, Arkan- sas, retired substitute teacher. At Monday’s debate, the 70-year-old says, “they need to talk about their programs ... but I don’t think they will.” A majority of Americans, like Jones, say they’re frus- trated, angry — or both — with the 2016 presidential election, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Cen- ter for Public Affairs Research. Most Americans aren’t feel- ing proud or hopeful about the race, and half feel helpless, the results ind. Majorities of Americans want more focus on issues that are important to them, starting with health care, Social Security, education, ter- rorism and homeland security. Apathy isn’t the problem, the survey found. Eighty-six percent of Americans are pay- ing at least some attention to the race. Not popular The campaign is certainly hard to miss. Trump and Clin- ton are the two least popular presidential candidates in his- tory, and their ferocious bat- tle is smashing precedents and dominating public discourse. Trump has built his cam- paign in large part on atten- tion-getting —and frequently untrue — accusations, such as that his opponent “is the devil” and President Barack Obama “founded” the Islamic State group. But he’s found success linking the nation’s immigra- tion woes to its national secu- rity concerns, the latter of which is rated by Americans as among the top issues facing the country. Clinton is a former senator and secretary of state who is an avowed foreign and domes- tic policy wonk. She has tried to make the election, in part, a referendum on Trump’s itness for ofice. Her recent stum- ble during an abrupt exit from this year’s 9/11 memorial cer- emony, captured on video, added to the reality-show qual- ity of the election. Her cam- paign disclosed that she’d been diagnosed with pneumonia. Clinton and Trump have clear political and stylistic objectives during their irst debate Monday, the irst of three such showdowns certain to inluence the race in its inal six weeks. For both, it’s about rattling the other candidate — and not being baited into a less-than-presidential perfor- mance. Trump is looking to shore up his credibility with moderate white voters, partic- ularly women, after more than a year of remarks that appeared intolerant or bigoted. Clinton is trying to appeal to young Americans, who are unenthu- siastic about her candidacy. Issues? Jones suggests the Starting at AP Photo/Matt Rourke AP Photo/ Evan Vucci Democratic presidential can- didate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla., Sept. 21. Republican presidential can- didate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Miami on Sept. 16. $35,010 2016 Lincoln MKX Retail Cash: $1,000 0% APR for 60 months OAC Starting at AP Photo/J. David Ake A stand-in for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen in a television camera monitor as prepara- tions continue Sunday for the presidential debate at Hof- stra University in Hempstead, N.Y. ONLINE AP-NORC Center: www.apnorc.org candidates owe more on that front it to potential voters who don’t have access to the inter- net or the time she has to hunt down their policy positions. “I went looking on the internet for (Clinton’s) posi- tion on free (college) educa- tion, and it was hard, but I inally found it,” says the life- long Democrat, who isn’t sold on Clinton because she doesn’t trust her, or husband Bill, the former president and governor of Jones’ state. “They need to talk about their programs on this, this and that.” Whether the candidates ever get to informative discus- sions of their policy positions and their professional qual- iications is unclear. But the demand is there. Issues that matter The survey found that nearly two-thirds of Ameri- cans say the campaign focuses too little on the issues that mat- ter to them personally. More than 6 in 10 Americans of both parties agree. A bit more than half say there’s been too little focus on the candidates’ qual- iications, with Democrats being more likely than Repub- licans to feel that way, 61 per- cent to 45 percent. And more than half of Americans in the survey said the campaign is focused too much on the per- sonal characteristics of the candidates, with Republicans and Democrats about equally likely to feel that way. The issues Americans care most about? Health care comes in irst, with 81 percent list- ing that as very or extremely important, while similarly high percentages said the same about Social Security, educa- tion, terrorism and homeland security. The next most-cited issues: crime and economic growth, which three-quarters of respondents listed as at least very important. Similar major- ities cited poverty and taxes. Ranking lower, according to the indings: immigration, with just 61 percent listing the issue as very or extremely important to them. There’s bipartisan agree- ment on the importance of some issues. Nearly identical percentages of Democrats and Republicans call crime and unemployment top issues. At least three-quarters from both parties call Social Security very important. On many other issues, their priorities diverge: Democrats are particularly likely to call health care and poverty top issues, while Republicans are particularly likely to rank ter- rorism, taxes, debt and for- eign policy as very important. About 7 in 10 Democrats but less than half of Republicans named as top issues call gun control and income inequal- ity. Three-quarters of Demo- crats, but only about a third of Republicans, say the same about racism, the environment and climate change. Republicans are far more likely to name international trade agreements as a very or extremely important issue. And 7 in 10 Republicans, but only about half of Democrats, call immigration a top prior- ity. Among Americans with a favorable opinion of Trump, nearly 8 in 10 say so. The AP-NORC poll of 1,022 adults was conducted Sept. 15-18 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probabil- ity-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be repre- sentative of the U.S. popula- tion. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. 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