![]() |
David Dewhurst on VoteMatch |
VoteMatch Responses
(Click here for VoteMatch quiz) | |
---|---|
VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation) |
Strongly Opposes
topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (-5 points on Social scale) | Pushed the sonogram bill with pro-life advocates: Opposes topic 1 Proud of defunding Planned Parenthood: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Require women seeking abortions to view a sonogram: Strongly Opposes topic 1 |
No opinion on
topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Opposes
topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (-5 points on Social scale) | Define marriage as a union between one man and one woman: Strongly Opposes topic 3 |
Strongly Favors
topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-5 points on Social scale) | Protect student's right to pray and reflect in schools: Strongly Favors topic 4 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (+5 points on Economic scale) | Reduce medical lawsuit abuse clogging our court system: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Replace ObamaCare with free-market healthcare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 |
Opposes
topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-3 points on Economic scale) | Opposes cutting payroll taxes as harmful to Social Security: Opposes topic 6 |
No opinion on
topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Favors
topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (-5 points on Social scale) | Repeal EPA's job-killing regulations: Strongly Favors topic 8 |
Strongly Favors
topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-5 points on Social scale) | Mandatory 25-year-to-life sentence for first-time child rape: Strongly Favors topic 9 Death is appropriate punishment for repeat child molesters: Strongly Favors topic 9 |
Strongly Favors
topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale) | Strongly supports our constitutional right to bear arms: Strongly Favors topic 10 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+5 points on Economic scale) | State income tax would pass over my dead, cold body: Strongly Opposes topic 11 I favor a fairer and flatter tax: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Passed the largest tax cut in Texas history: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: Strongly Opposes topic 11 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (-5 points on Social scale) | Boots on the ground, plus a wall: Strongly Opposes topic 12 No amnesty & no tuition for illegals; go home and re-apply: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Triple the size of the Border Patrol: Strongly Opposes topic 12 |
Opposes
topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-3 points on Economic scale) | Cruz defended Chinese on intellectual property theft: Opposes topic 13 |
No opinion on
topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Favors
topic 15: Expand the military (-3 points on Social scale) | No blanket cuts to military, but trim back some spending: Favors topic 15 |
No opinion on
topic 16: Make voter registration easier (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Opposes
topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-3 points on Social scale) | More combat troops were needed in Iraq, and for longer: Opposes topic 17 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+5 points on Economic scale) | Open the Gulf; more hydro-fracking; less "green" energy: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by AFP: Strongly Opposes topic 18 |
No opinion on
topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Opposes
topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+2 points on Economic scale) | Supports the Cut-Cap-and-Balance Pledge: Opposes topic 20 |
| |||
Other governors' VoteMatch: | David Dewhurst on the issues: | ||
TX Gubernatorial: Annise Parker George P. Bush Greg Abbott Julian Castro Mike Rawlings Rick Perry TX Senatorial: David Alameel Emily Sanchez John Cornyn Jon Roland Steve Stockman Ted Cruz Gubernatorial Debates 2017: NJ: Fulop(D) vs.Lesniak(D) vs.Wisniewski(D) vs.Ciattarelli(R) vs.Guadagno(R) vs.Rullo(R) VA: Gillespie(R) vs.Wittman(R) vs.Wagner(R) vs.Northam(D) vs.Perriello(D) Gubernatorial Debates 2018: AK: Walker(i) vs.(no opponent yet) AL: Countryman(D) vs.(no opponent yet) AR: Hutchinson(R) vs.(no opponent yet) AZ: Ducey(R) vs.(no opponent yet) CA: Newsom(D) vs.Chiang(D) vs.Istvan(I) vs.Villaraigosa(D) CO: Johnston(D) vs.Mitchell(R) CT: Malloy(D) vs.Drew(D) vs.Srinivasan(R) FL: Gillum(D) vs.Graham(D) GA: Kemp(R) vs.(no opponent yet) HI: Ige(D) vs.(no opponent yet) IA: Kim_Reynolds(R) vs.Leopold(D) ID: Little(R) vs.Fulcher(R) IL: Rauner(R) vs.Kennedy(D) vs.Pawar(D) KS: Brewer(D) vs.(no opponent yet) MA: Baker(R) vs.Gonzalez(D) MD: Hogan(R) vs.(no opponent yet) ME: (no candidate yet) MI: Whitmer(R) vs.El-Sayed(D) MN: Coleman(D) vs.Murphy(D) vs.Otto(D) NE: Ricketts(R) vs.(no opponent yet) NH: Sununu(R) vs.(no opponent yet) NM: Grisham(D) vs.(no opponent yet) NV: (no candidate yet) NY: Cuomo(R) vs.(no opponent yet) OH: DeWine(R) vs.Schiavoni(D) vs.Sutton(D) vs.Taylor(R) OK: (no candidate yet) OR: Brown(D) vs.(no opponent yet) PA: Wolf(D) vs.Wagner(R) RI: Raimondo(D) vs.(no opponent yet) SC: McMaster(R) vs.McGill(R) vs.Pope(R) SD: Noem(R) vs.Jackley(R) TN: Green(R) vs.Dean(D) TX: Abbott(R) vs.(no opponent yet) VT: Scott(R) vs.(no opponent yet) WI: Walker(R) vs.Harlow(D) WY: (no candidate yet) |
Newly-elected governors (first seated in Jan. 2017):
DE-D: Carney IN-R: Holcomb MO-R: Greitens NH-R: Sununu NC-D: Cooper ND-R: Burgum VT-R: Scott WV-D: Justice Retiring 2017-18: AL-R: Robert Bentley(R) (term-limited 2018) CA-D: Jerry Brown (term-limited 2018) CO-D: John Hickenlooper (term-limited 2018) FL-R: Rick Scott (term-limited 2018) GA-R: Nathan Deal (term-limited 2018) IA-R: Terry Branstad (appointed ambassador, 2017) ID-R: Butch Otter (retiring 2018) KS-R: Sam Brownback (term-limited 2018) ME-R: Paul LePage (term-limited 2018) MI-R: Rick Snyder (term-limited 2018) MN-D: Mark Dayton (retiring 2018) NM-R: Susana Martinez (term-limited 2018) OH-R: John Kasich (term-limited 2018) OK-R: Mary Fallin (term-limited 2018) SC-R: Nikki Haley (appointed ambassador, 2017) SD-R: Dennis Daugaard (term-limited 2018) TN-R: Bill Haslam (term-limited 2018) WY-R: Matt Mead (term-limited 2018) |
Abortion
Budget/Economy Civil Rights Corporations Crime Drugs Education Energy/Oil Environment Families/Children Foreign Policy Free Trade Govt. Reform Gun Control Health Care Homeland Security Immigration Infrastructure/Technology Jobs Local Issues Principles/Values Social Security Tax Reform War/Iraq/Mideast Welfare/Poverty | |