KIRO Radio listeners weigh in on their most important election issues

With Election Day quickly closing in, KIRO Radio’s Gee and Ursula Show opened the phone lines Thursday, asking listeners to answer one simple question: Without mentioning any candidates, what is the issue you care most about for this election?

Answers ran the gamut, but as Gee pointed out, it was proof positive of “just how much we have in common” despite our political differences.

For Ali in Issaquah, returning to a sense of civility and decency topped the list of priorities.

“I think coming out of the election for me, it’s really just the state of our union and how we get along with each other,” Ali described. “As a country and as a nation, we may never have been perfect, but there was a time when we were really good. Now, it just seems like we’ve made America hate again.”

“I’m hoping regardless of what happens in this next election, we at least make America good again — I just want to get along with everyone,” Ali added.

That was a sentiment echoed by a handful of listeners on the KIRO Radio text line as well.

“My top issue is repairing the divisiveness,” said one.

“It’s all about unity,” said another.

Others cited more economic motivations headed into Election Day.

“My primary subject is income inequality,” Tom from Seattle said. “I think about universal basic income quite a lot, and I think that’s the way to have a trickle up economy, where those folks could spend that money right in their community.”

“We need to find a way to incentivize the re-circulation of capital so that we sort of re-fertilize the economy,” Dan from Everett said. “We need to start using the government to create incentives and rules that will compel the 1% to put their money back into the 99% in a way that keeps us all going.”

Listen to the Gee and Ursula Show weekday mornings from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. on KIRO Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.