(National Interest) Andrew Kohut - It is hard to recall a time when foreign policy issues played so diminished a role in the American public's thinking. Midterm election exit polls found only 8% of voters saying that a foreign policy issue was a voting consideration for them, and more generally, national polls show just 11% citing a foreign policy issue as the most important problem facing the nation. This is the lowest registration of international concerns since immediately before the 9/11 attacks. The writer is President of the Pew Research Center.
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