| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Keep safe & legal abortion.
Cover abortion under national health care system.
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Civil Rights
Require affirmative action.
Equality by sexual orientation, including gay marriage.
Require affirmative action.
Equality by sexual orientation, including gay marriage.
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Crime
Focus on crime prevention instead of harsher sentences.
Opposes death penalty.
Focus on crime prevention instead of harsher sentences.
Opposes death penalty.
Focus on crime prevention instead of harsher sentences.
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Drugs
Replace Drug War with treatment and alternative sentencing.
Replace Drug War with counseling & treatment.
Replace Drug War with treatment and alternative sentencing.
More drug counseling & treatment.
Replace Drug War with treatment and alternative sentencing.
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Education
Support choice within public schools.
Support choice within public schools.
Support choice within public schools.
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Energy & Oil
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions now; more later.
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Environment
Tax industrial pollution.
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Families & Children
Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution.
Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution.
Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution.
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Foreign Policy
Support social and economic justice across the globe.
Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments.
Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy.
Support social and economic justice across the globe.
Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments.
Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy.
Support social and economic justice across the globe.
Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments.
Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy.
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Free Trade
Reject NAFTA, GATT, & WTO.
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Gun Control
Support Brady Bill & thoughtful gun control.
Supports careful gun control.
Support Brady Bill & thoughtful gun control.
Support Brady Bill & thoughtful gun control.
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Health Care
Health care is a human right.
Nationalize health care & ensure universal coverage.
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Homeland Security
Abolish nuclear weapons.
Cut defense budget by 50%.
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Immigration
Don’t blame immigrants for social and economic problems.
Don’t blame immigrants for social and economic problems.
Don’t blame immigrants for social and economic problems.
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Jobs
Support a Living Wage.
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Social Security
Don’t privatize Social Security.
Don’t privatize Social Security.
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Tax Reform
Tax incentives to redistribute unbalanced wealth.
Reform system to provide tax justice.
Support progressivity; no flat tax.
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Welfare & Poverty
Negative income tax to keep all adults above poverty line.
Workfare is slave labor.
Restore federally funded welfare entitlement program.
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