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From the New York Times:

Even though polls show that Iowa Democrats still consider the war in Iraq the top issue facing the country, the war is becoming a less defining issue among Democrats nationally, and it has moved to the back of the stage in the rush of campaign rallies, town hall meetings and speeches that are bringing the caucus competition to an end. Instead, candidates are being asked about, and are increasingly talking about, the mortgage crisis, rising gas costs, health care, immigration, the environment and taxes.

I think this is a function of a couple of things:

* Americans are pretty insulated from the war -- most people don't have any relatives who are in Iraq or (in the case of our nonexistent draft) in danger of being sent there.

* But they're not insulated from mortgage problems, gas costs, health care or the other issues. Those affect their daily lives.

If everything was going swimmingly on the home front, Iraq would probably occupy more attention at home. But if things are going badly at home and abroad, well, people only have so much capacity for worry.