| 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: Doesn’t support abortion, but leave them legal Abortion: Abortion decision belongs with the woman and who she chooses |
| Supports Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Defense: Against the draft; for including women except in combat Civil Rights: Prosecution and sentencing should be colorblind |
| Strongly Supports Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Respect diversity |
| Opposes Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Education: Focus on results and standards Principles & Values: Problem is with fundamentalist fanatics, not religion |
| Supports More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Individual responsibility for unhealthy lifestyle choices Health Care: Focus on prevention, children, and results Health Care: Government interference should be kept to a minimum |
| No opinion Privatize Social Security | (No votes on which to base response) |
| Strongly Opposes Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | School Choice: Erase the word voucher from the vocabulary School Choice: Public dollars belong to public schools Education: Commonsense steps to improve public education School Choice: Loosen federal control; leave more to state & locals School Choice: Choosing private school includes responsility to pay |
| Opposes Death Penalty | Crime: Put up with death penalty until life sentences mean life Crime: Supported death penalty, but now as Governor opposes it |
| Strongly Opposes Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Crime: No role for governor in crime; it’s for local police Drugs: Tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders Crime: Find compromise between rehabilitation and punishment |
| Opposes Absolute right to gun ownership | Gun Control: Guns are designed to kill; respect them Gun Control: If you’re going to own a gun, know what you’re doing Gun Control: Concealed weapons OK if you can pass safety exam |
| Strongly Supports Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Budget & Economy: Return any budget surpluses to the taxpayers automatically Tax Reform: Let people keep as much of their money as possible Tax Reform: $600 “Jesse Checks” tax rebate to every taxpayer Tax Reform: Replace income tax with 15% national sales tax Tax Reform: Supports national consumption tax to equalize tax burden |
| Strongly Supports Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Immigration: Emergency medical, but no other services, for illegal imms. Immigration: Grant legal immigrants all benefits of citizens |
| Supports Support & Expand Free Trade | Labor & Farming: Make Agriculture Competitive Anywhere in the World Labor & Farming: Make Agriculture Competitive Anywhere in the World Free Trade: Trade creates jobs & productivity |
| Strongly Opposes Link Human Rights to trade with China | (No votes on which to base response) |
| No opinion More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Defense: War isn’t civilized; don’t expect warriors to be Defense: Military is stronger if all-volunteer |
| No opinion Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | (No votes on which to base response) |
| Supports Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: Buchanan is an unrealistic isolationist War & Peace: We need Saddam as the bad guy in oil disputes |
| Strongly Supports Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | Environment: Develop light rail tranist for Minnesota Environment: Competitive electricity pricing; include alternative energy Environment: Recycling conserve our limited resources Environment: Teach environment in grade schools |
| Strongly Opposes Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: Stop being so afraid of marijuana; some uses are OK Drugs: The war on drugs has failed; look for other solutions Drugs: Rethink approach to drugs; “more of the same” fails Drugs: Jail won’t work when we can’t even keep drugs out of prisons |
| Supports Allow churches to provide welfare services | Welfare & Poverty: Transition from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency Welfare & Poverty: Transition from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency Welfare & Poverty: Believes in private charity, not government charity |