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Disagree. How strong an issue's importance is impacts how much one will spend time addressing or advocating for that issue.
SSM and abortion are both topics I spend a lot of time on here, yet in the real world care very little about.
Also, when voting for someone, if a candidate's position on that one important issue, opposes one's position, that might prevent that individual from voting for that candidate. I know it would for me.
For example, Jerry... if there was a candidate who was mildly for most of the things you support, but STRONGLY for abortion on demand, would you vote for him?
You're mixing political theory with the practical application of policy.
To answer your question, yes, I probably would vot for him, because abortion isn't a big deal to me. It's just fun to debate. Same with SSM. Liberals are right, these things don't effect me, and so I don't care; but this isn't the real world, this DebatePolitics.com, a video game, and it's fun to argue the hot-topics.
In truth social issues aren't going to make or brake my support for any given candidate. I am a social conservative, but it's not a big deal. I didn't vote against President Obama because he was pro-choice, but because he's on the record in strong support of single-payer nationalized healthcare. The social issues and speaking gaffs (57 states; "punished with a baby", etc) were just tools to troll the left here, nothing more.
If a liberal came out and was strong on SSM, abortion rights and nationalized healthcare, yet immovably resilient on national security and the 2nd amendment, then this conservative would be voting for a liberal.
That doesn't change my positions on those various issue, though, which means who I support doesn't define what I am.
Put all of those same social issues in front of me in a ballot box, and though I overlooked them when considering a candidate's total political platform, I would still vote to oppose elective abortion and SSM.
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