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Litmus Test Issues(Pick All That Apply)

Which Issues Must A Candidate For Office Agree With You On To Get Your Vote


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Which of the following would, if a candidate for office disagreed with you on the issue, would you be unable to vote for the candidate? In other words, what issues are going to determine how you vote. Please pick all that apply.

Government Spending/Taxes/Debt
Foreign Policy
Abortion
Guns and Gun Rights
Same Sex Marriage
Party(ie the candidage needs to be the same party or ideology as you, for example SCOTUS nominees)
Health Care
Immigration
Environment
None of those/I have no Litmus Test Issues

I realize this is not all possible issues. If some other issue is a litmus test issue, please list it.
 
Government Spending/Taxes/Debt
Foreign Policy
Abortion
Guns and Gun Rights

Same Sex Marriage
Party(ie the candidage needs to be the same party or ideology as you, for example SCOTUS nominees)
Health Care
Immigration
Environment

None of those/I have no Litmus Test Issues

That's me.
 
Personally, I vote mostly based on the person and their track record in "regular" life. I tend to vote against anyone who's been in office too long or spent their entire life in politics/government. The myopia of those who've been surrounded by politicians and bureaucrats is one of the main problems with government.
 
I don't really have litmus test issues. I vote for the candidate that I agree with the most across all issues.
 
I pretty much despise the idea of voting for anyone who represents our current two-party system.

So my litmus test is if they have either an "R" or a "D" next to their name, I always try to find an alternative.

This country is pretty much screwed every way to sunday thanks to R's & D's, why on earth would I vote to keep them in power?
 
Well, here's the thing.

Almost no one in the main 2 parties has the balls to openly share my positions on most of my "ideal" litmus test issues, even though they're nothing but old-news progressive things that everyplace else in the developed world already did 20+ years ago: real environmental protection, universal health care... The only one of them any mainstream candidate will openly support is pro-choice, and even then, most of them won't be all that serious about it.

So if I vote for D's at all, the only reason I'm going to do so is if their R competition is some kind of religious right/cut-everything conservative who seems to be doing well in the polls -- a defensive vote, basically.

Otherwise, I'm just protest voting.
 
Government Spending/Taxes/Debt
Abortion
Guns and Gun Rights
Party(ie the candidage needs to be the same party or ideology as you, for example SCOTUS nominees) I am assuming you also mean if the candidate is liberal or conservative.
Immigration
Of the poll options these are pretty much the main requirements I am not flexible on.I am not going to vote for someone who is liberal(regardless of what letter is next to their name),pro-abortion, pro-amnesty/legalization for illegals,anti-2nd amendment, and wants to increase our spending and or taxes.
 
I don't really have litmus test issues. I vote for the candidate that I agree with the most across all issues.

So you would vote for a candidate that has a record of trying to pass laws that let citizens own any kind of firearm they wanted or tried to pass laws that made all abortions illegal except to save the life the mother?
 
I dont have one big issue right now. I have so many deal killers with either party and truly believe the are both the same for the most part. I went with Obama because of the healthcare last two times . I dont beleive the Repubs have any real interest in rolling it back, they will talk to keep their base fired up but nothing else. I get pretty fired up about guns but dont think the Dems are a big threat there. So no, I dont have a litmus test right now.
 
I pretty much despise the idea of voting for anyone who represents our current two-party system.

So my litmus test is if they have either an "R" or a "D" next to their name, I always try to find an alternative.

This country is pretty much screwed every way to sunday thanks to R's & D's, why on earth would I vote to keep them in power?

What a country this would be if more people would stop voting D and R. I know most people blindly follow a party and vote on that. They find reasons to like their parties candidate and find reasons to dislike the other parties candidate. Oddly enough most of them are voting for the letter, and then say they aren't. See exhibit A : THIS POLL
 
Of the poll options these are pretty much the main requirements I am not flexible on.I am not going to vote for someone who is liberal(regardless of what letter is next to their name),pro-abortion, pro-amnesty/legalization for illegals,anti-2nd amendment, and wants to increase our spending and or taxes.

slightly conservative huh
 
What a country this would be if more people would stop voting D and R. I know most people blindly follow a party and vote on that. They find reasons to like their parties candidate and find reasons to dislike the other parties candidate. Oddly enough most of them are voting for the letter, and then say they aren't. See exhibit A : THIS POLL

What I tend to see is most people vote for the "candidate" that scares them the least.

Kind like picking your own death and your choices are drowning, electrocution, hanging, or a long fall off a tall cliff. No matter what you chose, you're still dead.

That's how most elections appear to me.
 
Taxation/gov spending/etc, and same sex marriage.
 
Which of the following would, if a candidate for office disagreed with you on the issue, would you be unable to vote for the candidate? In other words, what issues are going to determine how you vote. Please pick all that apply.

Government Spending/Taxes/Debt
Foreign Policy
Abortion
Guns and Gun Rights
Same Sex Marriage
Party(ie the candidage needs to be the same party or ideology as you, for example SCOTUS nominees)
Health Care
Immigration
Environment
None of those/I have no Litmus Test Issues

I realize this is not all possible issues. If some other issue is a litmus test issue, please list it.

Government spending
Guns
Foreign policy
Healthcare (aka ACA)

In that order.
 
slightly conservative huh
I support many issues that a lot of conservatives do not.
I support minimum wage and minimum wage increases. I believe worker being to join a union(I do oppose closed shops and forced union dues for non-members) and that unions still have their uses. I do not believe we should be intervening in the affairs of other countries. I oppose free trade due to the fact it cost Americans their jobs and gives countries the tax revenue needed to increase their military might. I oppose the keystone XL pipeline due to the fact they are using eminent domain to seize property. I do not think the government should be spying on Americans.
 
So you would vote for a candidate that has a record of trying to pass laws that let citizens own any kind of firearm they wanted or tried to pass laws that made all abortions illegal except to save the life the mother?

If I agreed with enough of their positions on other issues, yes.
 
slightly conservative huh

I will vouch for James. I at one time thought he was a far right ideologue. I was wrong, and he frequently is not where I would have guessed on an issue. He is definitely to the right, but not blindly right, nor far right.
 
In an absolute sense I have no litmus tests, but spending/taxes/debt and foreign policy probably come closest.
 
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