The article titled The Buck Stops Where discusses the issue of the national debt. The research conducted as part of the Choosing Our Fiscal Future initiative, broke the 300 influencers into two groups; the leaders and the opinion elites. The leaders are the governmental staff and the opinion elites are highly respected citizens who are not decision makers but help persuade the leaders' choices.
Both groups believe that our national debt is currently not a large issue. Only 13% of leaders and 9% of elites voted the national debt as our country's largest issue. These influencers believe that jobs and the economy are currently our largest concern and that there is not much that can be done right now to decrease our debt.

http://www.publicagenda.org/pages/the-buck-stops-where-2010

-Elizabeth Woollen