Source: Health Care Reform and the 1992 Presidential Election: November 1991

Which two issues mattered the most in deciding how you would vote for (Pennsylvania) Senator (1991)?

Note: Total exceeds 100% because of multiple responses

All PA voters

Wofford voters

Thornburgh voters

National health insurance

50%

64%

39%

Taxes

29

29

27

Recession/job loss

21

27

15

Candidate’s record/reputation

14

7

24

Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health. Fieldwork was conducted by telephone from November 5-6, 1991 by KRC Communications Research among a random sample of 1,000 Pennsylvanians ages 18 and older who said they voted in the 1991 special Senate election.