With America’s international influence declining at an ever-faster pace under Barack Obama, the importance of making national security the 2016 presidential campaign’s central issue has increased correspondingly. Although the conventional wisdom of political operatives and commentators is that voters do not pay attention to foreign and defense policy, threatening events around the world now compel a different conclusion.Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at the Greater Des Moines Partnership Iowa Caucus Consortium candidate forum in Des Moines, Iowa, October 8, 2015. ReutersIn fact, American citizens do understand that the president’s principal job is to keep the country safe. In the …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
