Gallup rates populace concerns for 15 different categories: healthcare (still) near the top of the list; climate change and race relations at the bottom. Should these be considered a list of election year issues?

I believe the Dems own the top five issues.  The GOP can campaign on these issues,  but the remainder are open for grabs.  If the Democrats can focus the national discussion on the remaining 10 issues, during the campaign cycle (which is here as of the Florida special election,  yesterday),  while minimizing their involvement and failings as to the top five issues,  they have a chance of keeping the coming elections from being as bad as predicted or feared.  Understand that most of the issues,  below,  are abstracts in the mind of the voters.  But unemployment (having no job,  or having to work part-time) and healthcare (having to buy something you cannot afford or having your current policy replaced by something you do not want) are not abstracts,  they are "real" and part of their human experience;  they will vote as these issues dictate, as these issues effect them personally.   

Source:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-worry.aspx