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VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background)	Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation)
Strongly Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's right (-5 points on Social scale)	The unborn have rights; defund the abortion industry: Opposes topic 1 Abortion is greatest evil since slavery: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Strictly pro-life Supreme Court & Vice Pres. nominees: Strongly Opposes topic 1
Opposes topic 2: Require hiring more women & minorities (+2 points on Economic scale)	End racial busing, quotas, & contract set-asides: Opposes topic 2 Racial & gender entitlements are Govt-sponsored prejudice: Opposes topic 2 Color-blind laws: end trendy bigotry of diversity: Neutral on topic 2 Tear out diversity programs, root and branch: Strongly Opposes topic 2
Strongly Opposes topic 3: Same-sex domestic partnership benefits (-5 points on Social scale)	Gay pride equated with moral decline and cultural decadence: Opposes topic 3 Opposes gay rights agenda in its entirety: Strongly Opposes topic 3 All lifestyles are not equal; some ideas are wrong: Opposes topic 3 No gay VP; no gays in Cabinet; it’s “a disorder”: Strongly Opposes topic 3
Strongly Favors topic 4: Teacher-led prayer in public schools (-5 points on Social scale)	Take country back from ACLU; allow school prayer & gay bans: Strongly Favors topic 4 Bring God and prayer back to public schools: Strongly Favors topic 4 Home schooling teaches children values: Favors topic 4 For school prayer; against multiculturalism: Strongly Favors topic 4 Traditional morality fights culture war against secularists: Favors topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 8: Death Penalty (-5 points on Social scale)	Prompt death penalty would stop mass murderers: Strongly Favors topic 8
Favors topic 9: Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws (-3 points on Social scale)	Stop gun rampages by requiring press silence: Favors topic 9 Clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists is “shameful”: Favors topic 9 Littleton due to poisoned culture declaring “God is dead”: Favors topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	Stop using heinous crimes to take away 2nd amendment rights: Strongly Favors topic 10 Faithfully protects 2nd Amendment, except for felons: Favors topic 10 Columbine shootings due to Hollywood, not guns: Favors topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 5: More federal funding for health coverage (+5 points on Economic scale)	Self-finance Medicare by self-investing: Opposes topic 5 Against national health system & federal takeover: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Supports catastrophic health insurance, privately paid: Opposes topic 5
Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+2 points on Economic scale)	Option for private investment, with public fall-back: Favors topic 6 Put Medicare taxes into personal insurance accounts: Favors topic 6 Medicare: no socialized system; no expansion: Favors topic 6
Strongly Favors topic 7: Parents choose schools via vouchers (+5 points on Economic scale)	Support home schooling but don’t give up on public schools: Favors topic 7 For vouchers, charter schools, & homeschooling: Strongly Favors topic 7 Decisions by parents and teachers, not bureaucrats: Favors topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 18: Replace coal & oil with alternatives (+5 points on Economic scale)	Energy independence by developing Caspian pipelines: Opposes topic 18 Explore ANWR; reconsider nuclear power & oil import fee: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Opposes raising CAFE standards: Opposes topic 18 Opposes Kyoto Treaty because it regulates US most: Strongly Opposes topic 18
Strongly Favors topic 19: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it (-5 points on Social scale)	Drug usage is not a victimless crime; so keep marijuana ban: Strongly Favors topic 19 Open Mexican border invites drug trafficking: Favors topic 19
Favors topic 20: Allow churches to provide welfare services (+2 points on Economic scale)	Welfare is a state and local responsibility: Favors topic 20
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Make taxes more progressive (+5 points on Economic scale)	Flat 16% tax on earnings over $35,000, plus import tariffs: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Dump our tyrannical 7 million-word tax code: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Budget surplus and import fees go to tax cuts: Opposes topic 11
Strongly Opposes topic 12: Illegal immigrants earn citizenship (-5 points on Social scale)	Immigration tsunami will make whites a minority in US: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Treat illegal immigration as an invasion & repel it: Strongly Opposes topic 12 A million immigrants a year: “we’re gonna lose our country”: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Most pressing foreign policy crisis: illegal immigration: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Secure our porous borders; teach immigrants English: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Immigration “time out”; reduce to 250,000 per year: Strongly Opposes topic 12
Strongly Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-5 points on Economic scale)	We will rue the day we passed NAFTA: Strongly Opposes topic 13 WTO is first step toward world government: Opposes topic 13 NAFTA & GATT sold out America’s workers: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Unapologetic about protectionism: Strongly Opposes topic 13
Favors topic 15: Expand the armed forces (-3 points on Social scale)	Pay soldiers more; end “social labs”; exit Balkans: Favors topic 15
No opinion on topic 16: Stricter limits on political campaign funds (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
No opinion on topic 14: The Patriot Act harms civil liberties (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 17: US out of Iraq (-5 points on Social scale)	Struggle against emerging world government: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Practice “masterly inactivity,” not “entangling alliances”: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Withdraw from UN; Kyoto Treaty; Rome Treaty: Strongly Opposes topic 17 End foreign aid; withdraw from most of IMF: Strongly Opposes topic 17 End New World Order; end foreign aid: Strongly Opposes topic 17