What is the most important issue for you when voting in the primary?

[curse10]

All this talk about candidates, how about some primary issues?

[MurikanDemocrat]

1. Other

I'm not a single issue voter. Never have been.

[curse10]

4. Not saying single issue voting

saying, what is the most important issue in deciding. I vote on many issues, personally, and make an aggregate decision.

[corporatewhore]

2. how about freetrade and Israel/Palestine on your poll

[curse10]

3. I thought free tade was directly related to economy

and I/P might get me relegated, to the I/P forum :-)

[anti-NAFTA]

5. If "economy" includes trade policy, then that.

Fair trade is the only way to prevent more unemployment.

[mlawson]

6. Electability!!

Believe me, nothing else will matter as much at noon on 1/20/05.

[arewethereyet]

13. and thats tied directly to economic policy

the one thing everyone cares about is their wallet.

[bigwillq]

7. Not just one issue

I say: The Economy, Environment, Civil/Human Rights, Education
These are all important to me also the character, class and voting history of the candidate.

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. fewer deaths

[readmylips]

9. #1 Issue; Getting rid of little man bush and his gansters...

that's it for me.

[FlashHarry]

10. Electability. No question.

In a normal election, I'd say the war, the economy, or any number of things. However, this administration is so extreme, so dangerous, I'd even consider voting for a traditional conservative Republican! (God strike me down...)

[Piperay]

11. Other...Electibility

there is no other single issue that is as important to me than the nominee be able to beat the chimp.

[JVS]

12. Spite

:-)

[Barad Simith]

23. D'OH! --- I forgot about spite!

I want to change my answer to spite.

[mikehiggins]

14. Whether they spell Clark's name correctly or not n/t

[aldian159]

15. The environment

Always has and always will be. Everything else is secondary to that.

[texasmom]

16. Yes, picking a candidate who will *win*, precisely because

I'm so terrified about the damage he's doing to the environment. The damage Bush has done to the environment since his first administration as governor of Texas is just outrageous. The stealth and outright overt attacks on the environment since he took office in Jan 2001 have been steady and unending.

Besides the environment I most fear our loss of civil liberties.

[Piperay]

21. Yeah, environment

that is the issue dearest to my heart and why I place electibility as what is most important in my choice of candidate. I don't think our environment can take another destructive 4 years of the bushies. :cry:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

17. Environment

I'm by no means a 'single-issue' voter, but I think it is the most important as well as most neglected issue.

[DebJ]

18. The economy (all other progress depends on it) but also honesty in

a candidate.

[Walt Starr]

19. Since Dean dropped out, I am a single issue primary voter

I am voting for the candidate who stands the best chance of defeating Kerry.

I'm voting for John Edwards.

[Kahuna]

20. Elect ability.

I make no bones about it.

Secondly, I would like a president who won't let the bushistas off the hook for their crimes against America.

[Barad Simith]

22. OTHER: civil liberties (nt)

[Dr Fate]

24. Foreign Policy. n/t

n/t

[LWolf]

25. Other.

I can't choose just one. They are all equally important. As my candidate might say, "interconnected and interdependent" upon one another. Those included as the most important issues for me include:

Health Care
Civil Liberties
Education
Environment
International relations
Social and economic justice

[11 Bravo]

26. Other...

Namely, the candidate most likely to send the little fool back to his pig ranch.

[Guaranteed]

27. LEADERSHIP.

Conviction. The willingness to STAND UP for what you believe in.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. I chose "other" because

I believe that our country is so screwed up in so many ways right now that a program here and a program there will be, as another thread put it, like trying to cure cancer with aspirin.

We need to undo the Reagan revolution and be as bold as the Republicans were in starting it. The only candidate who has consistently advocated this approach is Dennis Kucinich.

Whether in organizations or in countries, the people on top set the tone for the rest of the people to follow. I don't think it's a coincidence that America has become meaner and dumber since 1980.

I don't want to live in a mean and dumb country. I want to live in a benevolent and intelligent country. If some of Dennis's positions seem "pie in the sky" at first glance, so what? Even attempting to implement them would send a signal that meanness and stupidity are no longer to be considered cool.

[Zomby Woof]

29. SKULL & BONES!!! BFEE!!!!

Oh, 'scuse me. ;-)