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| VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
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No opinion on
topic 1: Abortion is a woman's right (5 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Strongly Favors
topic 2: Require companies to hire more women & minorities (0 points on Economic scale) | NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds: Strongly Favors topic 2 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 2 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 3: Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws (10 points on Social scale) | NO on prohibiting same-sex marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 3 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 4: Permit prayer in public schools (10 points on Social scale) | NO on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer: Opposes topic 4 NO on $75M for abstinence education: Strongly Opposes topic 4 |
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Favors
topic 5: More federal funding for health coverage (2 points on Economic scale) | YES on medical savings acounts: Favors topic 5 |
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Opposes
topic 6: Privatize Social Security (2 points on Economic scale) | Base indexing on a lower inflation rate: Opposes topic 6 NO on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes: Opposes topic 6 |
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Opposes
topic 7: Parents choose schools via vouchers (2 points on Social scale) | Expand school year from 180 days to at least 210: Opposes topic 7 |
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Opposes
topic 8: Death Penalty (7 points on Social scale) | NO on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 NO on limiting death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 9: Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws (10 points on Social scale) | Solving welfare by work will reduce crime: Opposes topic 9 Education is a strong anti-crime program: Strongly Opposes topic 9 NO on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms: Strongly Opposes topic 9 |
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No opinion on
topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (5 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Favors
topic 11: Decrease overall taxation of the wealthy (7 points on Economic scale) | Consider a VAT value-added tax: Favors topic 11 |
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No opinion on
topic 12: Immigration helps our economy-encourage it (5 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Opposes
topic 13: Support & expand free trade (2 points on Economic scale) | Get other nations to lower import barriers: Opposes topic 13 Trade deficit is as bad as budget deficit: Opposes topic 13 Trade deficit improves if we understand foreign culture: Opposes topic 13 |
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No opinion on
topic 14: Link human rights to trade with China (5 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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Opposes
topic 15: More spending on armed forces (7 points on Economic scale) | NO on 1996 Defense Appropriations: Opposes topic 15 |
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Favors
topic 16: Reduce spending on missile defense (Star Wars) (2 points on Economic scale) | NO on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty: Favors topic 16 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 17: Seek UN approval for military action (0 points on Economic scale) | Great nations should commit more abroad: Strongly Favors topic 17 Pay attention to developing nations: Strongly Favors topic 17 |
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Opposes
topic 18: Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy (7 points on Economic scale) | YES on do not require ethanol in gasoline: Opposes topic 18 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 19: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it (10 points on Social scale) | NO on spending international development funds on drug control: Strongly Opposes topic 19 |
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Opposes
topic 20: Allow churches to provide welfare services (7 points on Social scale) | Get business & churches involved with schools: Favors topic 20 Transform welfare recipients to productive citizens: Favors topic 20 NO on welfare overhaul: Opposes topic 20 NO on allowing state welfare waivers: Opposes topic 20 YES on eliminating block grants for food stamps: Opposes topic 20 NO on welfare block grants: Opposes topic 20 |
