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Sun Sep-14-03 05:47 PM
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Poll question: what's your issue? |
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Electoral politics becomes an all-or-nothing game at key points. What particular issue(s) get(s) you up in the morning?
(Sorry to lump #6 like this...only so many choices for polls)
I'm a #8, fwiw.
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:49 PM
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This pretty much covers all of the issues. It's why I can vote for Lieberman with a semi-clear conscience, and it's why I cannot vote Green in clear conscience.. I end-up seeing on the ballot:
__Stevens __Scalia
That's how the vote breaks-down for me.
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:51 PM
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The Supreme Court.
Sometimes I believe the greatest right of all is the right to be left alone....
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:49 PM
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is the single most important issue to me.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:00 PM
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3. *that's* the one I forgot |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:04 PM
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with the enviroment,energy and campaign finance reform included to my list.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:05 PM
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the environment the economy labor issues etc.
but the issue that gets me up in the morning is public education.
*End high-stakes testing.
*End unfunded mandates.
*End the blame game where the buck stops with me for every one of societies ills.
*Respect, budgetary and legal support, and pay us for what we put into the job; you might be able to attract a few teachers to teach the kids born this year.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:10 PM
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6. Other: Separation of church and state. |
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That is the one that pushes my buttons the most.
Again: It's sexual ORIENTATION, not preference!!
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:48 PM
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22. Sign me up for some seperation too |
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Although I have been considering seperation of corporation and state recently as well.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:11 PM
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7. Whatever issues together whose radical change constitutes Revolution |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:15 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:28 PM
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10. i got an issue with ulysses! |
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why they let regressive lefties like you on this board anywho? :hi:
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:31 PM
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11. I bought off the administrators. |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:33 PM
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Edited on Sun Sep-14-03 06:37 PM by Terwilliger
:loveya:
OnEdit: you neo-capitalist Green, ya!
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:42 PM
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17. damned Marxist longhairs...<grumble> |
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You probably live in, like, the Bay Area don't you? :P
:hi:
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:44 PM
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20. "personal attack! personal attack!" |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:50 PM
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I've got yer rule violation right here, buddy! :D
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:32 PM
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12. regressive? regressive?? |
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wee don need no steenk-eeng ree-gress-eeves!
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:05 PM
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28. you're on that list too, 'comrade' ! |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:38 PM
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14. Many issues are important to me, but ... |
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if I had to pick one issue it would be EDUCATION.
You can't have a democracy without a reasonably well educated electorate.
That includes all the conditions that make education effective and successful, like respect for the profession, freedom to teach in ways that work for the teacher, adequate funding, no compulsary textbooks, no compulsary uniform testing.
I also include the ongoing lifetime education one gleans from the MEDIA. The media must be diversified with a good dose of foreign sources, free of the constraints of consolidated corporate ownership. All of the conditions that make that kind of media possible are a part of my answer too.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:38 PM
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15. BBV and Taking Back Our Country |
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which means revitalizing our democratic process, sense of community, and "liberal" politics (by which I mean, in this context, anything on the left).
Everything else is really secondary, even as important as so many issues are. If we get it right -- we the people taking back our country -- we can handle everything else. Otherwise, we're lost.
Eloriel
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:07 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:40 PM
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16. Judicial appointees . . . |
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we cannot over-emphasize this issue. To a degree the courts run the country, anyway.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:42 PM
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Because they are all interconnected by the right-wing agenda of the current misadministration.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:44 PM
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TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE '2001' RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:05 PM
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29. OK OK I'm just kidding! |
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I thought someone might get this one. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/living/special_packages/starmagazine/6693767.htmDon't worry I didn't muck up the poll by really voting for "other".
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:47 PM
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are much less important than economic ones for me
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:48 PM
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23. This just proves that dems vote on a balance of issues |
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If this poll was given on freerepublic, you would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the GOP is the party of Guns,God and Gold.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:51 PM
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25. really, I could have filled |
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at least five more choices...
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:54 PM
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26. All of the above, and quite a bit more. |
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I have never been a single issue voter. I believe all of these things mentioned and several others are crucial, - including the environment, the current state of democracy in U.S. and civil liberties to name just a few.
Important to state, however, that I don't expect to find one individual candidate who can, - even if elected- satisfactorily resolve all of my issues to progressive standards. Politics is and always has been an ongoing battle for the betterment of society. You get what you get, the rest you keep working for.
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:00 PM
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Important to state, however, that I don't expect to find one individual candidate who can, - even if elected- satisfactorily resolve all of my issues to progressive standards. Politics is and always has been an ongoing battle for the betterment of society. You get what you get, the rest you keep working for.
At the same time, is there not a point of diminishing returns? Stopping the bleeding is the necessary first step, but only the first step.
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:08 PM
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31. Domestic violence - choice in danger |
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Women getting virtual life imprisonment in Saudi Arabia - gender issues, you say? Civil liberties.
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:10 PM
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gender issues, you say? Civil liberties.
Yup.
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:38 PM
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This could encompass foreign policy/fair trade, whatever. I support charitable choice programs and oppose the Iraq war, the death penalty, and "partial birth" abortions.
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