Washington, D.C., has had some of the most reliably blue voters in the nation since its allowance of three Electoral College votes in 1961. Yet, the Washington Examiner’s swing-state project covers the surrounding local area as well as competitive states, taking into account what voters in this region are concerned about.
The Washington Examiner is following the key issues voters care about as they prepare to vote for the next president of the United States. The specific issues being tracked are Social Security, crime, abortion, the economy, and immigration.
The issues were chosen with the help of the Associated Press issues tracker . The Washington Examiner subsequently compared five of the key issues in Google Trends on a state-by-state basis, revealing which topics are most important to voters in swing contests, as well as the local contests of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
Here, you can track how important these various concerns are to the voters in the district on a rolling 30-day basis.