| 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) |
| Supports Abortion is a woman's right | Abortion: Supports a woman’s right to choose |
| Strongly Supports Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Civil Rights: Inclusion even if you don’t believe in affirmative action Civil Rights: Overcome black criticism by reaching out “for real” Civil Rights: Affirmative action gives minorities a competitive choice Civil Rights: Diversity over discrimination; it won’t go away by itself Civil Rights: Wants active government in protecting civil rights Civil Rights: Equal opportunity without preferential treatment Civil Rights: Urged reconciliation in L.A. Rodney King riots |
| Opposes Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Skin color is not behavioral; sexual orientation is Defense: Originated “Don’t ask, don’t tell” as a compromise solution |
| No opinion Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Families & Children: GOP values fuel families; families build communities Families & Children: A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass |
| Supports More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Promise Three: Healthy start and future |
| No opinion Privatize Social Security | Social Security: Hard reality: reduce entitlements or raise taxes |
| Supports Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | School Choice: Supports charter schools, vouchers, home schools |
| No opinion Death Penalty | (No votes on which to base response) |
| Opposes Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Crime: Building jails is a temporary fix, not the solution Crime: Build our children instead of building jails |
| No opinion Absolute right to gun ownership | (No votes on which to base response) |
| Strongly Supports Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Principles & Values: With GOP on economy; wants bipartisanship on social issues Tax Reform: Lessen the burdens of taxes & debt Tax Reform: Tax dollars are better spent if left in private hands |
| Strongly Supports Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Immigration: Immigration is part of our life’s blood Immigration: Value today’s immigrant as much as Mayflower descendant |
| No opinion Support & Expand Free Trade | (No votes on which to base response) |
| Strongly Opposes Link Human Rights to trade with China | China: Sold his book in China (and it sold well) China: Trading is better than shooting China: Economic strength more important than military strength China: Mao’s China had thorough thought control but not paranoia |
| Supports More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Defense: We’ll defeat tyranny as we defeated communism & fascism Defense: Supports strategy of readiness for 2 near-simultaneous wars Defense: Make military leaner & more efficient Defense: Supports base closures; too many are Congressional pork Budget & Economy: Cut strategic oil stockpile; end Cold War spending |
| Opposes Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | Defense: No new nuclear weapons initiatives Defense: SDI is major conceptual breakthrough in nuclear stalemate |
| Supports Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: American century gives way to “century of democracy” War & Peace: US need not choose between Israel & Arabs War & Peace: US has always stood with Israel; and will continue to do so Defense: Oil is a vital interest; humanitarianism is not Foreign Policy: Somalia: Feeding hungry OK; national-building not War & Peace: Lebanon: providing “presence” not sufficient basis |
| No opinion Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | (No votes on which to base response) |
| Supports Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: Can solve drug problem only by strengthening kids Drugs: Assigned AWACS planes to fight drugs, despite opposition |
| Supports Allow churches to provide welfare services | Welfare & Poverty: Teach kids volunteerism while young Welfare & Poverty: Reform the entitlement state, not just the welfare state Government Reform: Believes in value of many government social programs |