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Pat Williams on VoteMatch |
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Strongly Favors
topic 1: Abortion is a woman's right (+5 points on Social scale) | Protect the reproductive rights of women: Strongly Favors topic 1 |
Favors
topic 2: Require hiring more women & minorities (-3 points on Economic scale) | Stricter sentencing for hate crimes: Favors topic 2 |
Neutral on
topic 3: Same-sex domestic partnership benefits (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Opposes
topic 4: Teacher-led prayer in public schools (+5 points on Social scale) | NO on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer: Strongly Opposes topic 4 |
Opposes
topic 8: Death Penalty (+2 points on Social scale) | NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment: Strongly Favors topic 8 NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder: Strongly Opposes topic 8 YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals: Opposes topic 8 |
Strongly Favors
topic 9: Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws (-5 points on Social scale) | Life imprisonment for repeat sexual predators: Strongly Favors topic 9 |
Strongly Favors
topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale) | Support tradition of hunting on wildlife refuges: Strongly Favors topic 10 |
Neutral on
topic 5: More federal funding for health coverage (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 6: Privatize Social Security (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 7: Parents choose schools via vouchers (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 18: Replace coal & oil with alternatives (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 19: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 20: Allow churches to provide welfare services (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 11: Make taxes more progressive (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 12: Illegal immigrants earn citizenship (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Opposes
topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-3 points on Economic scale) | Promote fair trade restricting Canadian wheat: Opposes topic 13 |
Neutral on
topic 15: Expand the armed forces (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Neutral on
topic 16: Stricter limits on political campaign funds (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Favors
topic 14: The Patriot Act harms civil liberties (+5 points on Social scale) | Address abuses of electronic monitoring in the workplace: Strongly Favors topic 14 |
Neutral on
topic 17: US out of Iraq & Afghanistan (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |