Over the last month or so, the issue environment has kept shifting toward the Republicans. Whether that continues -- and whether it ultimately yields GOP polling gains -- is one of the biggest questions as we head into the final stretch
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There is pretty clearly a shift in the issue environment. Here, one example -- interest in abortion is back down to pre-Dobbs levels on Google Searches, with the economy overtaking it. It's quite a bit like the pre-Dobbs leak numbers 
So far, there aren't huge signs of this reshaping the race. There are a few, perhaps -- Biden's ratings aren't going up anymore; Democrats losing ground in a few key Senate races v. August; maybe the RV/LV gaps in the polls this weekend. We'll have to see
A lot of you don't love the Google metric -- I like it a lot -- but here's another: the share of voters citing abortion as the 'most important' issue fell from 8% in July to 4% in September, per Gallup
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