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| QUOTE | | Amendment Note: We are going to switch from the 15-issue, but vague, system to a more specific 18-issue system. Please note these changes from the sample campaign, which do not reflect this modification, when you are preparing for your race. |
18-Issue Profile
You must indicate the position closest to your ideological stance, on a one to five scale. Refer to the numbers to see where exactly those values will put you. Remember that an issue profile is crucial to your pre-campaign poll and gives your opponent alot of fodder in your race. Remember that in no case are these choices going to be an exact match on your views. You are picking the number closest to your candidate's stance.
Issue 1: Abortion
| QUOTE | 1 - No legal abortions, overturn Roe v. Wade.
2 - No legal abortions, except to save the mother's life, rape or incest.
3 - Legal abortions in the first trimester of the pregnancy; life, rape and incest for second and third.
4 - Legal abortions in the first two trimesters; life, rape and incest for the third.
5 - Unrestricted access to abortions
* Minus 1 to your total if: you believe in Parental Notification
* Plus 1 to your total if: you believe government should fund abortions |
Issue 2: Affirmative Action
| QUOTE | 1 - Abolish all federal affirmative action programs.
2 - Affirmative action programs in only a very limited capacity.
3 - The benefits of diversity can justify affirmative action.
4 - Diversity is a compelling reason for affirmative action.
5 - Make federal agencies adhere to strict race and ethniticity quotas.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you agree with the majority ruling in Gratz v. Bollinger
* Plus 1 to your total if: you agree with the majority ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger |
Issue 3: Balanced Budget
| QUOTE | 1 - Eliminate the national debt as quickly as possible.
2 - A balanced budget amendment to reduce the deficit.
3 - Balance lowering the deficit with other priorities.
4 - Spending is more important than the deficit.
5 - Deficits are fine - focus on social spending.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you believe the U.S. should enact a Balanced Budget Amendment
* Plus 1 to your total if: you believe the U.S. should not enact a Balanced Budget Amendment |
Issue 4: Business Tax
| QUOTE | 1 - Significantly reduce all business taxes.
2 - Reduce business taxation.
3 - Businesses are taxed the right amount, enforce all taxes.
4 - Increase business taxation.
5 - Significantly increase all business taxes.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you believe companies should be able to retain offshore tax shelters
* Plus 1 to your total if: you believe tax loopholes for businesses should be slammed shut |
Issue 5: Campaign Finance Reform
| QUOTE | 1 - No campaign finance reform is needed.
2 - The McCain/Feingold bill is good enough.
3 - More power needs to be put in the people's hands.
4 - Significantly cap corporate donations.
5 - Money in politics!? WHAT!? Major reform is needed!
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would vote to repeal the McCain/Feingold bill
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would vote to uphold the McCain/Feingold bill |
Issue 6: The Environment
| QUOTE | 1 - The environment is fine, it doesn't need governmental protection.
2 - Economics before environmental, mostly.
3 - Balance safe environmental policies with sound economic policies.
4 - Good environmental policies are good economic policies.
5 - The environment should be a national priority.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you believe we should drill in ANWR
* Plus 1 to your total if: you believe we should not drill in ANWR |
Issue 7: Education
| QUOTE | 1 - Federal voucher programs for private schools.
2 - Federal voucher programs for low-income students.
3 - Increase federal funding, but have limited vouchers.
4 - No vouchers, increase public schools funding.
5 - Significantly increase public schools funding.
* Minus 1 to your total if: you would vote to enact a full federal voucher program
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would vote to repeal the No Child Left Behind Act |
Issue 8: Global Trade
| QUOTE | 1 - All global markets should be open.
2 - Most global markets should be open.
3 - Open global markets should be approached with caution.
4 - Some industries need federal protection.
5 - We need to enact large tariffs to protect American industry.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would vote to abolish the National Agency for Tariffs and Trade Regulations
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would enact a large tariff on Japanese automobile exports |
Issue 9: Gun Control
| QUOTE | 1 - There is a constitutional right to gun ownership.
2 - Americans should be wary of laws that restrict gun rights.
3 - Gun control is a state issue.
4 - Ban certain guns, require background checks.
5 - Guns only for the military and police.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would vote to repeal the Assault Weapons Ban
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would vote to uphold the Assault Weapons ban |
Issue 10: Gay Marriage
| QUOTE | 1 - Homosexuality is a sin.
2 - Marriage is between one man, one woman.
3 - Retain marriage definition, explore civil unions.
4 - Same-sex marriage, even if you have to change the name.
5 - Gay marriage is a constitutional right.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would approve the Federal Marriage Amendment
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment |
Issue 11: Immigration
| QUOTE | 1 - Illegal immigration is destroying this country.
2 - Reduce immigration, crack down on illegal immigration.
3 - Legal immigration is fine, but illegal immigration must get reeled in.
4 - Legal immigration is great.
5 - Legal immigration is great, illegal immigrations granted amnesty.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you want you build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border
* Plus 1 to your total if: you do not want to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border |
Issue 12: Military
| QUOTE | 1 - We need to significantly expand the military.
2 - Increase the military budget but find more efficent projects.
3 - Keep the budget the same, look for more efficent projects.
4 - Decrease overall military funding.
5 - Drastically cut military funding.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would have voted to go to War in Iraq
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would have Bush impeached for going to War in Iraq |
Issue 13: Foreign Intervention
| QUOTE | 1 - We can and should use military force to further U.S. interests.
2 - Only if our current national interests are threatened.
3 - Only if we are attacked.
4 - For humanitarian causes, or if we are attacked.
5 - Military intervention is French for imperialism.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you believe we should never have gone to Bosnia
* Plus 1 to your total if: you believe we should have taken over the Balkan region |
Issue 14: Personal Taxes
| QUOTE | 1 - Abolish the IRS, end income tax.
2 - Reduce income tax across the board.
3 - Reduce income tax for lower- to middle-class households.
4 - Increase income tax for the rich.
5 - Significantly increase income tax for the rich.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would vote to make the Bush Tax Cuts permenant
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would vote to repeal the Bush Tax Cuts right away |
Issue 15: Healthcare
| QUOTE | 1 - Healthcare is an exclusively private industry.
2 - Only a few public healthcare benefits, such as tax credits.
3 - Public healthcare for the poor and elderly, the rest private.
4 - Universal healthcare system for all Americans.
5 - Completely public healthcare system.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would have voted against HillaryCare
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would have voted for HillaryCare |
Issue 16: Energy
| QUOTE | 1 - Oil! Oil! Everywhere and not a drop to drink. (No need for renewable energy)
2 - Coal and oil are our mail energy sources for a long time.
3 - Renewable and non-renewable energy should be researched equally.
4 - Government should focus on renewable energy research.
5 - All government research funds should go to renewable energy.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would have voted for the Energy Policy Act of 2005
* Plus 1 to your total if: you would have voted against the Energy Policy Act of 2005 |
Issue 17: Social Security
| QUOTE | 1 - Privitization is the future of the system.
2 - Allow workers to invest some of their Social Security funds.
3 - There is no crisis, keep it as it is.
4 - No to private investments, increase federal funding.
5 - Social Security needs to be put in a loooockbooox.
* Minus 1 from your total if: you still support Privitization
* Plus 1 to your total if: you do not support Privitization |
Issue 18: Terrorism
| QUOTE | 1 - Terrorism can be stopped only one way: military force.
2 - No hesitation to use military force against terrorism.
3 - Focus on more diplomatic foreign policy, but prep the tanks.
4 - Poverty, corruption and oppression are the causes of terrorism.
5 - We are France. (Do not pursue terrorists)
* Minus 1 from your total if: you would approve of "coerced interrogations" going on in secret CIA prisons
* Plus 1 from your total if: you would censure the President for torture allegations |
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