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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Rated 100% by Planned Parenthood, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated Funding abortion avoids discrimination against poor women: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated Constitutional right to terminate pregnancy for health: Strongly Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Increase diversity in state employment: Strongly Favors topic 2 A robust, accurate, Black history curriculum in schools: Strongly Favors topic 2 Appointed first black judge to the state Supreme Court: Strongly Favors topic 2 Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights: Strongly Favors topic 2 Sponsored removing deadline for ratification of the ERA: Strongly Favors topic 2 More funding & services for victims of domestic violence: Strongly Favors topic 2
No opinion on topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (0 points on Social scale)	Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools: Strongly Favors topic 3 Don't elevate gender identity as a protected class: Strongly Opposes topic 3
No opinion on topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Respite care programs for family caregivers: Favors topic 5 Plan for increased research and prevention: Favors topic 5 Need to address high cost of health care: Strongly Favors topic 5 Reduced rates has led to almost 95% with insurance: Strongly Favors topic 5 COVID: We'll follow the science and wear masks: Strongly Favors topic 5 Rated GOP can't beat ObamaCare, so they pretend it's a "disaster": Strongly Favors topic 5
Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-3 points on Economic scale)	Expect to work longer than our parents did before retiring: Favors topic 6 Rated 93% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance: Strongly Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Focus on improving troubled schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Prioritize public education & supporting teachers: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Support 700 teachers at high-needs schools: Opposes topic 7 Opportunity Funding targets resources to neediest students: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Double Opportunity Funding for public schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Increase state investments in early childhood education: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Give children books free of charge from birth to school: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Rated No-strings-attached block grant will kill transparency: Opposes topic 7 Rated Oppose private and religious school voucher programs: Strongly Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+5 points on Social scale)	Improve the sustainability of our land and waters: Strongly Opposes topic 8 $50 million investment in new Clean Water Trust Fund: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs: Opposes topic 8 Voted YES to require GMO labeling: Opposes topic 8
Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+2 points on Social scale)	Rehabilitating offenders is key to safer communities: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Help ex-offenders back into community: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Inmates should leave prison better than when they entered: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Gangs should accept help or be prepared to go to prison: Favors topic 9 We banned chokeholds, now body cameras for every officer: Opposes topic 9 Expand group intervention program to reduce gun violence: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Sponsored evidence-based & proven prevention for street gangs: Opposes topic 9 Rated 92% by the NAPO, indicating a tough-on-crime stance: Favors topic 9
Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-3 points on Economic scale)	Enforce existing gun laws; do more on mental health: Favors topic 10 Keep guns out of the hands of those who would harm: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Signed law mandating safe storage of loaded firearms: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Ban large-capacity ammunition: Opposes topic 10 States for Gun Safety: fill void left by no Federal policy: Strongly Favors topic 10
Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+2 points on Economic scale)	Get spending under control and reduce the deficit: Opposes topic 11 Budgetary discipline: reduce debt AND cut taxes: Opposes topic 11 Share sacrifice of budget cuts and tax hikes: Favors topic 11 Rated Raising estate tax to 1990s level means $448B in new revenue: Strongly Opposes topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	No free pass, but guest worker program: Favors topic 12 Rated Voted to legalize DREAMer immigrants via military service: Strongly Favors topic 12
Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+2 points on Economic scale)	Ideas to bring jobs back instead of arguing about offshoring: Opposes topic 13 $25B more loans from Export-Import Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 50% by the USAE, indicating a mixed record on trade: Neutral on topic 13
Opposes topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-3 points on Economic scale)	Condemn China's organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners: Opposes topic 14 $500M and 3,000 troops to Africa to fight Ebola: Opposes topic 14
No opinion on topic 15: Expand the military (0 points on Social scale)	Fight terrorism effectively with global diplomacy: Favors topic 15 Rated Funding wars separately is gimmick against sequestration: Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Make mail-in voting a permanent feature of our elections: Strongly Favors topic 16 Delaware should join National Popular Vote compact: Strongly Favors topic 16 Ban stock trading based on Congressional insider knowledge: Strongly Favors topic 16 Require full disclosure of independent campaign expenditures: Strongly Favors topic 16 Full disclosure of campaign spending: Strongly Favors topic 16 No photo IDs to vote; they suppress the vote: Favors topic 16 Establish "My Voice Voucher" small campaign contributions: Strongly Favors topic 16 Public financing of federal campaigns by voter vouchers: Favors topic 16 No separate contribution limits for party activities: Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration for all citizens: Strongly Favors topic 16 Signed term limit pledge: 6 years House; 12 years Senate: Favors topic 16
Strongly Opposes topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-5 points on Social scale)	Boycott & sanctions against Iran for terrorism & nukes: Opposes topic 17 Iranian nuclear weapons: prevention instead of containment: Strongly Opposes topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Prevent exploration and drilling off the coast of Delaware: Strongly Favors topic 18 If Washington won't act on climate change, we will: Strongly Favors topic 18 Eliminate climate-changing hydrofluorocarbons in Delaware: Strongly Favors topic 18 By 2035, 40% of state's energy from renewable sources: Strongly Favors topic 18 Build out Delaware electric vehicle charging infrastructure: Strongly Favors topic 18 Rated Drill for oil & gas in offshore OCS & Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Strongly Opposes topic 18 50% clean and carbon free electricity by 2030: Strongly Favors topic 18
Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+2 points on Social scale)	Impose new protections for the safe prescribing of opioids: Favors topic 19 Decriminalize under-age marijuana possession: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Rated B by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Budgetary reserve will help during downturn: Favors topic 20 Proposes fund to convert existing properties for employers: Strongly Favors topic 20 Put a hyper-focus on small business: they drive job creation: Strongly Favors topic 20 Investment in new jobs means drop in unemployment: Strongly Favors topic 20 Work-a-Day Earn-a-Pay Program Pilot: Strongly Favors topic 20 Grants to small business is investment in the future: Strongly Favors topic 20 Today we have more jobs than we have people to fill them: Neutral on topic 20 Develop incubators like DTP @ STAR, full on Day 1: Favors topic 20 Delawareans are willing to chip in and help, if all do: Favors topic 20 Develop more than 1,200 affordable housing units: Strongly Favors topic 20 Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016: Favors topic 20

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