Do you have a "single issue" that you apply to a candidate?

[Verde]

The Abortion issue?
Guns?
Health care?
Immigration?
Education?
The War?

I'm sure I left a lot out, but is there one issue that damns a candidate beyond the primaries that you would never vote for that person?

Then, if you have a yes answer, what will you do if a candidate is nominated that disagrees with you?

[piedmont]

1. This may be cheating, but I have several "single issues" as you define it.

If a candidate's position is too far from mine on any of the issues I consider important, he/she is out of the running for me. Although I can be persuaded to hold my nose and vote for someone I detest if they're running against someone even worse.

[noamnety]

13. same here

Anyone who is signing checks to fund the war is out. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3093204&mesg_id=3093204
Anyone who views women as potential forced slave-labor incubators is out.

(I reserve the right to add to this list)

[roody]

2. Yes. War on Iraq and other countries.

I will not vote for someone who supports the war on Iraq.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. ending the war. Why, because people are dying as we speak. nt

[CoffeeCat]

4. My litmus test...

...in these trying times is---Have you been screaming from the rafters against BushCo?

If so, I can consider you worthy of my vote and attention. If not, step aside.

These are frightening times: Iraq, domestic spying, torturing, illegal wiretapping,
Habeas Corpus in the toilet, Guantanamo, democracy fading away. If an elected official does not
take loud and frequent stances against this sick cabal--then I have to wonder if they
are compliant with them (Either that or they're being blackmailed, which means that
they are politically impotent anyway).

No one gets my vote unless they've been screaming from the rafters against these democracy-hijacking
thugs.

Nothing else matters if democracy is gone.

[aikoaiko]

5. Fortunately, pressing for more gun control is no longer vogue so I can concentrate on other issues

[Solo_in_MD]

22. Gun control was never a good idea anyway

[Nutmegger]

6. War with Iran.

And the whole "War on Terra" crap.

[Lex]

7. House size.

nt

[piedmont]

10. !

:rofl:

thanks for the laugh, Lex

[tool_of_the_people]

23. Perfect!

:hi:

[cassiepriam]

8. STOP. THE. WAR. And Send Bush to prison.

Those are my two issues.

[ulysses]

9. I have many single issues.

[terrya]

11. I have several single issues

Including issues relating to GLBT Americans.

[Digit]

12. Yeah, electable by the masses is top of the list

That is why I want Edwards.
Beyond that:
His fight against poverty
Healthcare

[sandnsea]

14. Pandering

particularly to the "middle class", when they're really talking about the top five percent who earn over $150,000. No pandering, finger in the wind Democrat for me.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

15. Retracted

[scarletwoman]

16. Yes. No more war. That's it. If a candidate won't confront the war machine, they are useless

to me.

sw

[Solo_in_MD]

17. I am not sure if I would vote for someone who had shingles...

yes I am being snarky....

[femmocrat]

18. Yes. Must be anti-war.

Not just this war, but all war.

[LoZoccolo]

19. Yes: smoking. They have to assure me they will not take away my right to smoke.

As I said: I do not smoke because it is bad for you. But I will not have my right to smoke taken away from me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3090761

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

20. Free Trade

I won't vote for a canidate against free trade, I also will not vote for a christian fundementalist.

[leftofthedial]

21. three issues:

1. The environment/global warming
2. The class war
3. US Middle East policy (including the occupation of Iraq)

repukes fail all three

current Democratic front runners all fail two out of three

The only candidate who is strong on all three issues is Dennis Kucinich.

[Raksha]

24. Yes...the Iraq War and the threatening war with Iran.

And Clinton, Obama and Edwards have all lost my support for reasons spelled out in other GD threads. So that leaves Dennis Kucinich and Al Gore, who just doesn't know he's running for president yet. But he will.

[regnaD kciN]

25. Yes. PNAC...

This may be, at first glance, a combination of several issues: Iraq, the I/P conflict, blood-for-oil, etc. But it all comes down to an endorsement or repudiation of the PNAC assumptions that a) we are doomed to be engaged in a "clash of civilizations" with those big, bad Moooooooslems, b) that the only way we can win this "clash" is to remake the entire Middle East according to our designs and for our benefit, and c) that any means, including military action, are justified to carry out this goal.

Hence, it isn't just Iraq. Lots of Democratic candidates initially supported the Iraq War; few will admit to supporting it today. But, even if they've "seen the light" on Iraq, do their other positions reflect the PNAC agenda? Do they speak expectantly of bringing about "regime change" in those countries who aren't our best buddies (and, in fact, some of those who are, such as Egypt)? Do they balk at attempts to bring about an equitable and secure peace between Israel and its neighbors, instead subscribing to an "us versus them" approach which leaves no room for negotiation or mutual compromise? Do they speak of our "energy needs" as if all the oil in the region rightfully belongs to us, and those Arab and/or Muslim nations who happen to exist above it are somehow trespassing on our property?

It's a matrix of issues, and yet the answers any candidate may give will reveal a clear idea of whether or not they subscribe to the PNAC dream of, essentially, the U.S. owning whichever parts of the world we choose -- an attitude that is not only unjust in and of itself, but which is almost guaranteed to eventually bring about "blowback" on a level that would make 9/11 look like a minor accident.

[maine_raptor]

26. Single Issue Tests are BS

There are so many issues out there (just look at the above answers) that I really do feel that judging any candidate by any single issue just doesn't cut it. Besides, I've always thought that "single issue voters" were the providence of the Right. You know, "pro-life", "christian values", etc. type folks. Sure hate to think we progressives were becoming like those.

[LeftishBrit]

27. I don't know that I have one single issue...

but there are some that are particularly important to me; e.g. education; the NHS; disability rights; and of course NOT waging pre-emptive war or playing 'nuclear roulette' games. E.g. I was negative about Blair from the beginning (before the war) because of his support for cuts in disability benefits - hardly a 'Labour' attitude.

Perhaps the one thing that's a 'single issue' for me is that I would never vote for anyone who tries to whip up racism or anti-immigrant prejudices in order to get elected.

[Vinca]

28. My primary issue is health care.

What happens in 2008 will determine once and for all if I'll be staying in this country or not.