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Most Important Issue For 2016 Election?

Which of these is the single most important issue for you in the 2016 election?

  • I am right leaning, and healthcare

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I am left leaning, and the debt/deficit

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I am left leaning, and abortion

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    31

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Out of the list, which issue is the most important to you and how you will vote in the 2016 election, primary and/or general. I have these separated to left leaning and right leaning, if you are truly smack inm the center, well sorry, but limited to 10 options so you are out of luck, just post which is most important. Thank you for your participation, and please be patient while I enter all the poll options.
 
Does it matter if you are right-leaning or left-leaning for these issues? Just curious.
 
I find it interesting your poll has guns and abortion but no foreign policy or immigration answers.

Guns and abortion are really minor issues dedicated activists on fringes fight over, the majority of Americans never care about those two at any one time.
 
It's not my election, but I'd say your most important issue for 2016 is finding a competent executive. If you don't have a competent leader in the White House, you'll never solve or deal with any of the substantive issues facing the country.
 
Another poll that ignores the millions of voters who are neither left nor right 'leaning'.
 
Here's the thing, every single election cycle a poll EXACTLY like this comes up. People vote. Then people bicker back and forth.

Trouble is - people just keep re-electing the same damn people over and over again, and the problems that we have just continue to fester and grow.

Look at who's already declared they're in the race. Anyone new? Or just "more of the same"?

We're in a massive cycle of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Every election I HOPE beyond hope that more people will gravitate towards a third party candidate.

Every election I'm highly disappointed when all I see are basically the same D's & R's put right back into their positions of power.
 
Does it matter if you are right-leaning or left-leaning for these issues? Just curious.

It shouldn't. The economy/jobs and the debt/deficit are intertwined, if you ask me.

Those will affect us ALL.
 
Here's the thing, every single election cycle a poll EXACTLY like this comes up. People vote. Then people bicker back and forth.

Trouble is - people just keep re-electing the same damn people over and over again, and the problems that we have just continue to fester and grow.

Look at who's already declared they're in the race. Anyone new? Or just "more of the same"?

We're in a massive cycle of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Every election I HOPE beyond hope that more people will gravitate towards a third party candidate.

Every election I'm highly disappointed when all I see are basically the same D's & R's put right back into their positions of power.

I agree...the 'system' keeps giving us the same choices of candidates. Look at the top two retreads (at least name wise)...Clinton and Bush. They are solid establishment candidates
 
I can't pick a number one but I think foreign policy and the economy are well above the others for me. Also, I follow the sentiment that if you boost the economy that helps the debt anyways.
 
Does anyone think that the conservatives will be helped by the fact that gay marriage isn't on the table anymore? One less social issue to stumble on?
 
The confederate flag? Obama's (now democrats) success with gay marriage? George Bush's legacy as a problem president? It won't be whatever the nation is actually facing. That is for sure.
 
Does anyone think that the conservatives will be helped by the fact that gay marriage isn't on the table anymore? One less social issue to stumble on?

Depends...will they insist on trying to overturn it? Will they go on and on about how morally "wrong" that was and try to use it as a weapon against the opposition?

Has anyone who is Pro-Life stopped the "war" against Roe V Wade?

Will the conservatives stop trying to be the morality police for everybody? I doubt it, but we'll see.
 
Depends...will they insist on trying to overturn it? Will they go on and on about how morally "wrong" that was and try to use it as a weapon against the opposition?

Has anyone who is Pro-Life stopped the "war" against Roe V Wade?

Will the conservatives stop trying to be the morality police for everybody? I doubt it, but we'll see.

Will the liberals stop?

You realize there are 2 sides right?
 
Will the liberals stop?

You realize there are 2 sides right?

I was directly replying to a post about conservatives.

Go back to my first post and see what I posted.

BOTH parties are dry-humping us into oblivion. Not one. Both.
 
Who will pick the next SCOTUS justices.
 
The key issue of the next several decades will be one of employment. Specifically we have to find an answer to the question as to what we do with tens of millions of people who simply are no longer necessary for the nation and its economy to function. In a representative democracy such as ours, a high percentage of people who have no constructive role or place in the society is a recipe for serious potential disaster.
 
Almost every other issue boils down to economics. Abortion does. Racism does. Education and immigration issues do. Even this country's gun problems would be alleviated through more egalitarian economics.
 
Almost every other issue boils down to economics. Abortion does. Racism does. Education and immigration issues do. Even this country's gun problems would be alleviated through more egalitarian economics.

I don't actually disagree :) lol
 
I find it interesting your poll has guns and abortion but no foreign policy or immigration answers.

Guns and abortion are really minor issues dedicated activists on fringes fight over, the majority of Americans never care about those two at any one time.

I agree completely, besides guns and abortion are pretty much left and right and everyone knows who stands where. Those two were wasted options.
 
First of all, I find it difficult to cast a vote because I am not leaning. But to your questions,
I like to think that jobs and the economy are the most important issues. People with well paying jobs have a better perspective on things. When people are struggling to make ends meet and are afraid to lose their jobs, they tend to be less cooperative to lend a helping hand to others, fund ventures that they know little about or disagree with (green energy i.e.).
What's more, a sound economy and low unemployment assures revenue for most other necessities, like health care subsidies, entitlement programs, military, schools and so much more. But most importantly, it is our independence that is on the line. We need our jobs here, we have to stop borrowing money and becoming more dependent on countries that aren't very friendly.

The second most important issue is getting rid of the self serving and power hungry politicians who only have their own interests at heart. Most of them give good lip service, but lets face it, they seem to be very pleased with themselves while our country is going to hell. Party, candidate, it matters not. I can count on one hand the politicians is trust just a bit.
 
The economy. It always is, well, almost always.

I don't see how Hillary loses in 2016 unless the economy takes a huge hit. Then the party in the WH takes the blame, 'see 2008'.
 
I voted debt/deficit. I honestly believe that is a dead weight hanging on the neck of this country and it will drown us.

I honestly believe that the most important function of the President is the nations security.
 
Out of the list, which issue is the most important to you and how you will vote in the 2016 election, primary and/or general. I have these separated to left leaning and right leaning, if you are truly smack inm the center, well sorry, but limited to 10 options so you are out of luck, just post which is most important. Thank you for your participation, and please be patient while I enter all the poll options.

Surprised you didn't include foreign policy/international affairs. Was there a particular reason for this?
 
Surprised you didn't include foreign policy/international affairs. Was there a particular reason for this?

To do it like I wanted, I was limited to 5 issues(5 * 2 = 10, max options for a poll here), so lots of things did not get listed, though probably foreign policy should have been. If I had it to do over again(and I might), I think I would forego the poll and ask people to assign number values for issues(ie 0 for least important, 10 for an issue you could not vote for some one who was not the exact same as you on the issue). The idea was to look at how left and right prioritize issues somewhat differently, but the format is not really making that work out well.
 
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