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What SHOULD BE the primary issue of the 2012 Presidential election?

What SHOULD BE the primary issue of the 2012 Presidential election?

  • Healthcare

    Votes: 4 9.1%

  • Jobs / Economy

    Votes: 24 54.5%

  • Immigration

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Social Issues (i.e.; abortion, gay issues, etc.)

    Votes: 3 6.8%

  • Foreign Policy (includes "war on terror", etc.)

    Votes: 2 4.5%

  • Foreign Policy (includes "war on terror", etc.)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 11 25.0%
  • Total voters
    44
  • Poll closed .
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What SHOULD BE the primary issue of the 2012 Presidential election?

  1. Healthcare
  2. Jobs / Economy
  3. Immigration
  4. Social Issues (i.e.; abortion, gay issues, etc.)
  5. Foreign Policy (includes "war on terror", etc.)
  6. Character
  7. Other

What will be, and what should be, may end up being the same. Time will tell.
 
Gays.......
 
Gay immigrants who serve in the military and get free health care.
 
The President's Kenyan birth and his association with witches and warlocks.
 
Entitlement/Budgetary/Tax reform.
 
I don't think there should be a primary issue. I think people should try to look over the candidates' beliefs and experience as a whole, rather than focusing on a single hot-button issue. That's unlikely to happen though. More than likely, the economy will be the defining issue of this election.
 
We should be concentrating on how to implement a sound fiscal policy, and a foreign policy of non-aggression
 
What is the role of government in the future of America?

That should be the main issue.
 
radcen said:
What SHOULD BE the primary issue of the 2012 Presidential election?

  1. Healthcare
  2. Jobs / Economy
  3. Immigration
  4. Social Issues (i.e.; abortion, gay issues, etc.)
  5. Foreign Policy (includes "war on terror", etc.)
  6. Character
  7. Other

What will be, and what should be, may end up being the same. Time will tell.
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I can't say I really trust either one of them on those issues.Because Obama's idea of immigration reform is amnesty, so I oppose that. Regardless of what Romney says now he can't be trusted because of past actions and what he has said in the past. Obama practically has this election in the bag.He could stick the final nail in Romney's coffin by running "Which Mitt Romney are you voting for" commercials.
 
Foreign policy is the most important issue listed for presidential discussion. The economy is of higher priority, but the president has only limited influence over it, especially given the current congress. Foreign policy is dictated in near-entirety by the executive, so differing opinions will actually have a substantive impact.
 
Exactly, in a presidential election, we need to focus on issues over which the president has authority. Expecting the POTUS to be able to give everyone who wants/needs one a good job is not realistic.

His views on abortion and gay marriage are irrelevant. The current president is way over on the pro choice side, while his predecessor was equally far to the other side. What changed when administration changed?
 
rathi said:
Foreign policy is the most important issue listed for presidential discussion. The economy is of higher priority, but the president has only limited influence over it, especially given the current congress. Foreign policy is dictated in near-entirety by the executive, so differing opinions will actually have a substantive impact.
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Dittohead not! said:
Exactly, in a presidential election, we need to focus on issues over which the president has authority. Expecting the POTUS to be able to give everyone who wants/needs one a good job is not realistic.
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Good points regarding foreign policy.


Dittohead not! said:
His views on abortion and gay marriage are irrelevant. The current president is way over on the pro choice side, while his predecessor was equally far to the other side. What changed when administration changed?
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I have friends at the extremes of both sides of the abortion debate, and when I tell them this exact point... that nothing is going to change, especially substantially, regardless who is elected... they look at me like I have snakes coming out of my head.
 
radcen said:
Good points regarding foreign policy.



I have friends at the extremes of both sides of the abortion debate, and when I tell them this exact point... that nothing is going to change, especially substantially, regardless who is elected... they look at me like I have snakes coming out of my head.
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Lots of voters just don't seem to understand the balance of powers, and that we're not electing a dictator.
 
Why should there be just one? I tend to vote for the candidate that 1) best represents my overall beliefs and 2) that I think I can trust to follow those beliefs closest. There isn't much differnce between either the candidates or the parties. One issue voters worry me more than even partisans.
 
radcen said:
What SHOULD BE the primary issue of the 2012 Presidential election?

  1. Healthcare
  2. Jobs / Economy
  3. Immigration
  4. Social Issues (i.e.; abortion, gay issues, etc.)
  5. Foreign Policy (includes "war on terror", etc.)
  6. Character
  7. Other

What will be, and what should be, may end up being the same. Time will tell.
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I voted "Other" because the climate crisis dwarfs all other issues. When the planet no longer sustains civilization, the rest of the listed items will become largely irrelevant.
 
Aspasia said:
I voted "Other" because the climate crisis dwarfs all other issues. When the planet no longer sustains civilization, the rest of the listed items will become largely irrelevant.
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The President doesn't control that...
 
We need leaders who will bring us to the point where we can compete with China. We need political leaders who realize that our environmental and labor laws keep us from competing.

These laws need to be rewritten so they are closer to the laws in China.
 
radcen said:
What SHOULD BE the primary issue of the 2012 Presidential election?

  1. Healthcare
  2. Jobs / Economy
  3. Immigration
  4. Social Issues (i.e.; abortion, gay issues, etc.)
  5. Foreign Policy (includes "war on terror", etc.)
  6. Character
  7. Other

What will be, and what should be, may end up being the same. Time will tell.
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7 other: Global domination. My vote is for Ernst Blofeld.
 
johnny_rebson said:
We need leaders who will bring us to the point where we can compete with China. We need political leaders who realize that our environmental and labor laws keep us from competing.

These laws need to be rewritten so they are closer to the laws in China.
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Why bother? why not just move the Chinese people here and have them do our jobs while we sit on our butts. They work for $200 a week (or is it month?) so we can pay them out of our salaries while they do the work.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
The President doesn't control that...
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Kyoto 1997 had an impact on CO2 emissions. Obama (Copenhagen 2009) failed although he could have done something, if he'd had the courage.
 
Balancing the budget.

Except during a declared war, no government should ever live beyond it's means.
 
Aspasia said:
Kyoto 1997 had an impact on CO2 emissions. Obama (Copenhagen 2009) failed although he could have done something, if he'd had the courage.
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The President can take a stance on it and call for legislation but he can't just do it. We are electing a President in a democracy, not a dictator in a totalitarian state.

Surely you realize by working towards fixing the economy, we allow more innovation which could permit more "green" technology - the same technology you seem to long for so dearly.
 
Social Issues, though I would put Health Care and Immigration in that category as well as abortion, gun control, etc....

Jobs/Economy would be at the bottom of the list in my mind.
 
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