| VoteMatch Responses
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| VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation) |
| Strongly Supports Abortion is a woman's right | Abortion: Supports a woman’s right to choose Abortion: Choice means quality of life for low-income families |
| Supports Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Civil Rights: Native Americans hurt by nuclear and toxic waste policies Civil Rights: Require affirmative action Civil Rights: Development marginalizes status of women |
| Supports Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Equality by sexual orientation, including gay marriage |
| No opinion Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Juvenile Crime: Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution Principles & Values: Spirituality is basis and motivation for political activism |
| Strongly Supports More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Moms know we need an affordable health care system Health Care: Aid to families is sacrificed in favor of military aid |
| Opposes Privatize Social Security | Social Security: Don’t privatize Social Security |
| Opposes Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | School Choice: Support choice within public schools |
| Opposes Death Penalty | Crime: Opposes death penalty |
| Opposes Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Crime: Focus on crime prevention instead of harsher sentences |
| Opposes Absolute right to gun ownership | Gun Control: Supports careful gun control Gun Control: Support Brady Bill & thoughtful gun control |
| Strongly Opposes Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Tax Reform: Favors economic and tax policies to benefit poor, not rich |
| Supports Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Free Trade & Immigration: Don’t blame immigrants for social and economic problems |
| Strongly Opposes Support & Expand Free Trade | Free Trade & Immigration: NAFTA undermines human rights; US military Colludes Free Trade & Immigration: Opposes NAFTA, GATT Agreements Free Trade & Immigration: Against exports of chemicals banned in US |
| Supports Link Human Rights to trade with China | China: Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy Foreign Policy: State Department opposes human rights of indigenous peoples China: Development policies threaten women’s rights to autonomy |
| Strongly Opposes More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Defense: Supports demobilization; stop economic motives for military |
| Supports Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | (No votes on which to base response) |
| No opinion Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: Support social and economic justice across the globe Foreign Policy: Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments Foreign Policy: Opposes military aid to Colombia Foreign Policy: Calls for closing of School of the Americas |
| Supports Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | Environment: Unchecked industrial expansion means species extinction Environment: Convert to renewable energy Environment: Protect common property as well as private property Environment: Overconsumption is key to environmental crisis |
| Opposes Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: Replace Drug War with counseling & treatment Drugs: Replace Drug War with treatment and alternative sentencing |
| Opposes Allow churches to provide welfare services | Welfare & Labor: Current government policies benefit the privileged few Welfare & Labor: Opposed 1996 welfare reform; help the poor instead |