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Strongly Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (-5 points on Social scale)	Planned Parenthood sells babies' body parts: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Defund and criminally investigate Planned Parenthood: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Offering contraception is dangerous federal overreach: Opposes topic 1 Judeo-Christian heritage fosters culture of life: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Euthanasia cheapens life just like abortion & infanticide: Strongly Opposes topic 1 I’m pro-life: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortion: Opposes topic 1 YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions: Strongly Opposes topic 1 NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research: Opposes topic 1 NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines: Opposes topic 1
Strongly Opposes topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (+5 points on Economic scale)	Rated 33% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Opposes topic 2 NO on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges: Strongly Opposes topic 2
Strongly Opposes topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (-5 points on Social scale)	Protect first amendment rights for Christian business owners: Opposes topic 3 Institution of marriage existed long before our laws existed: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Ok to deny services to gays based on religious beliefs: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Let's have religious liberty without anti-gay discrimination: Opposes topic 3 Find common ground on gay marriage even when we disagree: Favors topic 3 Strong views opposing same-sex marriage: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Supports constitutional amendment to define marriage: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights stance: Strongly Opposes topic 3 YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman: Strongly Opposes topic 3
Favors topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-3 points on Social scale)	Tap faith-based groups to run charter schools: Favors topic 4 Faith-based groups moved faster than feds during Katrina: Favors topic 4 Family values reduce poverty; war on poverty doesn't: Favors topic 4 Feds obliged to care for those who can't care for themselves: Opposes topic 4 Land of the Free shouldn't become Land of the Free Lunch: Favors topic 4 Washington is waging "silent war" against religious liberty: Strongly Favors topic 4 NO on allowing Courts to decide on "God" in Pledge of Allegiance: Favors topic 4
Strongly Opposes topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (+5 points on Economic scale)	My plan puts patients & doctors back in control: Strongly Opposes topic 5 No to Supreme Court justices who support ObamaCare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 ObamaCare changes American dream into European nightmare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Market-based alternatives to top-down ObamaCare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Healthcare is a right; but instrument is the marketplace: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Universal access, but not government-run: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Move away from ER to primary care; cover 100,000 uninsured: Favors topic 5 Loosen "one-size-fits-all" approach to Medicaid: Opposes topic 5 YES on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay: Strongly Opposes topic 5 NO on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D: Opposes topic 5
Strongly Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+5 points on Economic scale)	Supported privatization & reform, early & enthusiastically: Strongly Favors topic 6 Supports Bush's proposal for personal retirement accounts: Strongly Favors topic 6
Strongly Favors topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (+5 points on Economic scale)	Dollars follow the child; parents decide: Strongly Favors topic 7 Let parents decide on traditional school or virtual school: Favors topic 7 I am for standards, but against Common Core: Favors topic 7 Fight to give parents choices in schools: Strongly Favors topic 7 For school choice & tenure reform: Strongly Favors topic 7 Voucher program for New Orleans over legislature objections: Strongly Favors topic 7 Pay 90% of public school cost as private & parochial tuition: Strongly Favors topic 7 I favor whatever works, including vouchers & charters: Strongly Favors topic 7 Reinvented New Orleans with private/parochial scholarships: Strongly Favors topic 7
Favors topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (-3 points on Social scale)	Energy jobs are good-paying jobs, but EPA disallows them: Favors topic 8 $300 million for hurricane protection & coastal restoration: Opposes topic 8 $209 million investment in new roads and expansion: Opposes topic 8 YES on deauthorizing "critical habitat" for endangered species: Strongly Favors topic 8
Strongly Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-5 points on Social scale)	Open to method of execution but lethal injection ok: Strongly Favors topic 9 Chemical castration for sexual predators: Strongly Favors topic 9 Death penalty for violent child rape: Strongly Favors topic 9 Increase penalties on child predators and sex offenders: Favors topic 9 Increase scrutiny & penalties for school child abuse: Favors topic 9 Capital punishment for rape as well as murder: Favors topic 9 YES on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society: Opposes topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	Prevent publishing concealed handgun permit information: Strongly Favors topic 10 Yes, we proudly love our guns and religion: Strongly Favors topic 10 Ban gun registration & trigger lock law in Washington DC: Strongly Favors topic 10 YES on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers: Strongly Favors topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+5 points on Economic scale)	We all want to get rid of death tax & reduce power of IRS: Strongly Opposes topic 11 3-tiered tax rate: 25%/10%/2%, with 2% for even the poorest: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Get rid of both corporate tax and corporate welfare: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Set tax brackets at 25% and 10%, then 2% even for the poor: Strongly Opposes topic 11 We paid companies, via loopholes, to not pay corporate tax: Favors topic 11 Overhaul our tax code and eliminate income taxes: Strongly Opposes topic 11 The more you pay in taxes the less you are free: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Federal tax rebate should be exempted from state income tax: Opposes topic 11 Eliminate the permanent tax on business utilities: Opposes topic 11 Speed up the elimination of the tax on capital debt: Opposes topic 11 Make the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts permanent: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Rated 0% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: Strongly Opposes topic 11 YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends: Strongly Opposes topic 11
Strongly Opposes topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (-5 points on Social scale)	Criminalize sanctuary cities & jail their mayors: Opposes topic 12 Prosecute and defund sanctuary cities for harboring illegals: Strongly Opposes topic 12 More legal foreign workers; fewer who believe in Shariah law: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Opposes in-state tuition for illegal immigrants: Strongly Opposes topic 12 We need a high walls and wide gate: Opposes topic 12 We've got a backwards system: low walls and a narrow gate: Favors topic 12 A secure border means that border governors certify it: Opposes topic 12 Mexico is effectively exporting its unemployment to us: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Enforce existing laws & refocus on high-skill immigrants: Opposes topic 12 Rated 100% by USBC, indicating a sealed-border stance: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Government services in English only: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Declare English as the official language of the US: Opposes topic 12 YES on preventing tipping off Mexicans about Minuteman Project: Strongly Opposes topic 12 YES on building a fence along the Mexican border: Strongly Opposes topic 12
Strongly Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-5 points on Economic scale)	NO on implementing CAFTA, Central America Free Trade: Strongly Opposes topic 13
Strongly Favors topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (+5 points on Economic scale)	Demand info on background & monitoring of Syrian refugees: Strongly Favors topic 14 The idea of America is slipping away, but we can rescue it: Strongly Favors topic 14 America is exceptional & should remain the greatest country: Strongly Favors topic 14 Don't turn the American dream into the European nightmare: Strongly Favors topic 14 YES on reforming the UN by restricting US funding: Strongly Favors topic 14 YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight: Favors topic 14
Favors topic 15: Expand the military (-3 points on Social scale)	Ill-advised to scale back missile defense: Strongly Favors topic 15 Make no apologies when we must use our military strength: Strongly Favors topic 15 Now is no time to cut funding for our troops: Strongly Favors topic 15 YES on continuing military recruitment on college campuses: Favors topic 15 YES on restricting no-bid defense contracts: Strongly Opposes topic 15
Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+2 points on Social scale)	It's time for term limits; fire them all: Favors topic 16 Make being a Congressman a part-time job: Favors topic 16 YES on restricting independent grassroots political committees: Opposes topic 16 YES on requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations: Strongly Favors topic 16
Strongly Opposes topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-5 points on Social scale)	No-fly zone in Syria, to support Syrian rebels: Opposes topic 17 U.S. ground troops to wipe out ISIS: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Replace Assad; hunt down & destroy ISIS: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Against nuclear deal with Iran; keep state sanctions: Strongly Favors topic 17 Don't change hearts & minds; kill the terrorists: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Bad Iran nuclear deal is worse than no deal: Opposes topic 17 Keep option to send US ground troops to fight ISIL: Strongly Opposes topic 17 No deal with Iran that lets them become a nuclear power: Opposes topic 17 YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date: Strongly Opposes topic 17 NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days: Strongly Opposes topic 17
Strongly Opposes topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+5 points on Economic scale)	Climate change is a Trojan Horse to increase regulation: Strongly Opposes topic 18 The left loves energy to be expensive and scarce: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Keystone pipeline creates jobs without environmental damage: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Cheap, affordable domestic energy is economically critical: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Develop any & all methods of producing energy: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Cap-and-trade is a jobs bill for other countries: Strongly Opposes topic 18 More renewables; more nuclear power, more drilling: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Rated 0% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence: Opposes topic 18 Stop harmful EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions: Strongly Opposes topic 18 YES on authorizing construction of new oil refineries: Strongly Opposes topic 18 YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries: Strongly Opposes topic 18 NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore: Strongly Opposes topic 18 NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies: Strongly Opposes topic 18 YES on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC: Favors topic 18
Favors topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (-3 points on Social scale)	No legalization; but focus on rehabilitation for addicts: Favors topic 19 We lock up too many people for casual drug use: Opposes topic 19 Never experimented with drugs as a youth: Favors topic 19 Rated -10 by NORML, indicating a "hard-on-drugs" stance: Strongly Favors topic 19
Strongly Opposes topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+5 points on Economic scale)	Cut the government economy to grow the American economy: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Wanting to cut is easy; actually cutting is harder: Strongly Opposes topic 20 $18 trillion debt means economy is running off a cliff: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Cuts to reclaim American dream & end European-type nightmare: Opposes topic 20 Constitutional Amendment requiring a balanced federal budget: Opposes topic 20 Replace "obsession with zeroes" with growth strategy: Favors topic 20 Create jobs by lowering tax rates for families & business: Strongly Opposes topic 20

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