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Posted: 2015-08-18T23:06:43Z | Updated: 2015-08-18T23:06:43Z

Americans don't think foreign policy will take center stage in the 2016 election, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

Despite the ongoing discussion over the nuclear deal with Iran and an inaugural GOP presidential debate that featured more questions about foreign policy than any other topic, 43 percent of Americans say they expect domestic issues to be more important in the upcoming election. Only 33 percent think global issues will receive greater focus.

That's a significant shift from earlier this year. In February, with economic optimism on the rise but concerns about terrorism growing, Americans predicted by a 7-point margin that international issues would play a larger role during the 2016 election.

Views of the economy have soured mildly since then. Fewer Americans now see it as improving, although the percentage saying things have grown worse has changed little since February. At the same time, fewer people now see terrorism as an increasing threat.