According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s most recent health tracking poll, Americans consider healthcare to be one of the most important issues in the 2008 presidential campaign, behind only the economy and Iraq. But it is not necessarily a litmus-test issue. Nationally, 70 percent of registered voters said they would consider a candidate’s position on healthcare as “just one of many important factors” in determining their vote, compared to 11 percent who said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their views on the issue. Fifteen percent of respondents, including a quarter of Republicans and 9 percent of Democrats, said that healthcare was “not a major issue” in their vote. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2008.