The ideological divides in Washington — between right and left, and between different factions within the House Republican caucus — make action on first-rank issues unusually difficult, so it's natural that politicians would look for compromises on lower-priority debates instead.
Spencer said the environment was important to voters, even if it was in the second rank of issues in tracking polls.
The second ranked factor was "Labor issues".
Sexton et al. [8] produced some of the first research that deals directly with the traditional ranking issues.
In contrast, the first rank for medical issues was assumed to be robust.
The issue first ranked among the most-linked-to news stories in blogs (5th at 6% of the links) the week of April 5-9, 2010, following a federal court ruling that threatened net neutrality.
This is not a front rank issue.
The fifth ranked ethical challenge facing the public by the panel was the issue of medical error.
In fact, when the Pew Research Center asked registered Hispanic voters to rank issues that matter to them in order of importance, immigration didn't rank first -- second or third -- on their lists.
Similarly, education – ranked fourth in issues most concerning voters – did not even make it into the top 10 topics addressed by TV news bulletins.
