The phrase "popular issue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is widely discussed or of public concern. Example sentence: The climate crisis has become a popular issue among the scientific community.
It might be our most popular issue now that eating has become the national pastime.
Updated at 11.13am GMT 10.05am GMT Now onto another popular issue for Cameron - fracking.
Toynbee said this showed that "quick and clever" action targeted against the "right popular issue" works.
It is also a popular issue, with public sentiment among most New Mexicans clearly with the governor, political analysts say.
The aim was not simply to get tough on shirkers as the Tories were wont to frame their most popular issue.
Recently, Mr. Kejriwal lit on a popular issue, increased electricity prices in Delhi, which affects nearly every family in the region.
But as tort reform became a politically popular issue and T.L.R. rose in power, it started crowding out Democrats backed by the trial lawyers.
When in 1996 the I.B.M. Systems Journal published an issue dedicated to research at the Media Lab, for example, it became the journal's most popular issue ever.
The ban, intended to reduce market volatility, was to be lifted at the end of last October but was then extended by three months to help ailing companies like Banco Popular issue debt.
Similarly, Obama recently co-sponsored landmark legislation to curb racial profiling — not a popular issue outside minority communities, and not, therefore, a smart move for a man running for the U.S. Senate.
There was a brief period of time when gun control was a popular issue, but that was before the National Rifle Association mobilized itself into one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the nation's history.
