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Lawrence Lessig on VoteMatch |
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topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+2 points on Social scale) | I would veto a law defunding Planned Parenthood: Favors topic 1 |
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topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale) | Black Lives Matter: institutional racism risks black lives: Strongly Favors topic 2 |
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topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+5 points on Social scale) | LGBT rights secured constitutionally; now work on statute: Strongly Favors topic 3 Aggressively support transgendered social recognition: Strongly Favors topic 3 |
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topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale) | ObamaCare public option was compromised to special interests: Strongly Favors topic 5 |
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topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-5 points on Economic scale) | Privatizing Social Security is a sure path to insecurity: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Apply same Social Security rate to all levels of income: Opposes topic 6 |
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topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-3 points on Economic scale) | No Child Left Behind gave birth to testing industry: Opposes topic 7 |
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topic 8: EPA regulations are too restrictive (+5 points on Social scale) | We don't own Earth; we hold it in trust for our children: Strongly Opposes topic 8 |
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topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale) | Comprehensive reform of mandatory minimum sentences: Strongly Opposes topic 9 |
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topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-5 points on Economic scale) | Keep machine guns away from the sorts who massacre kids: Strongly Opposes topic 10 |
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topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale) | Taxes in America should be progressive and efficient: Strongly Favors topic 11 |
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topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale) | Promise the hardest workers that they can become citizens: Strongly Favors topic 12 |
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topic 13: Support & expand free trade (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-3 points on Economic scale) | Work with Sunnis and Iraq against ISIS: Opposes topic 14 |
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topic 15: Expand the military (+5 points on Social scale) | The size of our own defense budget induces instability: Strongly Opposes topic 15 |
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topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale) | Voter vouchers: matching funds for federal campaigns: Strongly Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration; make election day a holiday: Strongly Favors topic 16 Acknowledge elephant in the room: partisanship doesn't work: Favors topic 16 |
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topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (+2 points on Social scale) | No US ground troops in Syria; but create safe zones: Neutral on topic 17 Vigorously support nuclear agreement with Iran: Strongly Favors topic 17 Maintain 5,500 or more US troops in Afghanistan: Opposes topic 17 Our trillion dollar war made America less safe: Strongly Favors topic 17 |
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topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale) | Stop subsidizing oil companies & their pollution: Strongly Favors topic 18 |
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topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale) | War on Drugs is most self-destructive war in U.S. history: Strongly Opposes topic 19 |
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topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-3 points on Economic scale) | America needs a minimum wage that is a living wage: Favors topic 20 We need a new law to take on Wall Street: Favors topic 20 |
