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I remember Obama being criticized the first time he was elected for making healthcare reform his Number One priority when the majority said Number 1 is Jobs.
So what are your Top 5 issues for 2016? I know current events can make your priorities change before Election Day.
Primary Only:
Do you vote mostly for a Presidential primary candidate based on their experience with issues important to you (primary) or their campaign promises on issues important to you (primary) or because the other candidates aren't up to the job (primary) so your pick is by default or because you like the candidate's demeanor/personality/appearance/values (primary)?
If it's all of the above, give percents to each that total 100%.
1. Economic injustice, including increasing the number of living wage jobs in the economy in the short-term while seeking more long-lasting solutions to the distortion of the labor marketplace over the last thirty five years to the detriment of workers, especially those most vulnerable in society. (And to be clear, the only reason those in worse situations than that aren't the top priority is that not even right-wingers are so immoral - yet - such that they would rail against the social safety net that protects those that cannot work.)
2. Health and human services, including assuring basic access to basics (life, health, food, shelter, protection, identity, work, participation, family, education, leisure, etc.) regardless of the current state of priority #1.
3. Dismantling of power plays that give the rich and powerful a greater say in government than other citizens.
4. National competitiveness, including support for education, innovation, developing new industries, IP protection, and more stringent limitations on employment of foreign nationals, both legal and illegal.
5. Protection of the right for each person to live their own life, within their own skins, within their own families, within their own homes, and within their own worship, in accordance with their own beliefs and values, without suffering ramifications of externally-directed actions directed at them by others, in terms of housing, employment, hospitality, and all aspects of commerce.
Foreign policy and domestic civil liberties are always my big voting issues. I'll always support a candidate who sees America as an inhabitant of the globe over one who sees it as a ruler of the globe.
I remember Obama being criticized the first time he was elected for making healthcare reform his Number One priority when the majority said Number 1 is Jobs.
So what are your Top 5 issues for 2016? I know current events can make your priorities change before Election Day.
Primary Only:
Do you vote mostly for a Presidential primary candidate based on their experience with issues important to you (primary) or their campaign promises on issues important to you (primary) or because the other candidates aren't up to the job (primary) so your pick is by default or because you like the candidate's demeanor/personality/appearance/values (primary)?
If it's all of the above, give percents to each that total 100%.
I vote based on their experience.
The more that they follow the Constitution, the more likely I will vote for them.
If they believe in less government, then I'm more likely to vote for them.
One who understands that you can't spend your way out of problems. One with a lot of knowledge about Economics, so that he understands that raising the minimum wage won't do a damn thing for us, as an example.
1. Smaller leaner more efficient federal government
2. Personal freedom from nanny state presidents.
3. Energy Independence - all in for US
4. Illegal Immigration - enforce the law already on the books, build the fence, figure out how to better monitor and arrest visa overstays
5. Work for welfare - Concrete plans to reduce government handout programs for people who won't work
I don't want pie in the sky promises from some candidate. I want to hear the plans to do it.
I only have two issues for Congress:
1. Pass a law to rotate the presidential primary state voting order
2. GET OUT! Term limits.
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