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VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background)	Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation)
Favors 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
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Black Lives Matter: institutional racism risks black lives: Strongly Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors 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
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)	ObamaCare public option was compromised to special interests: Strongly Favors topic 5
Strongly Opposes 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
Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-3 points on Economic scale)	No Child Left Behind gave birth to testing industry: Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes 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
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale)	Comprehensive reform of mandatory minimum sentences: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Strongly Opposes 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
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Taxes in America should be progressive and efficient: Strongly Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors 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
No opinion on topic 13: Support & expand free trade (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Opposes topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-3 points on Economic scale)	Work with Sunnis and Iraq against ISIS: Opposes topic 14
Strongly Opposes topic 15: Expand the military (+5 points on Social scale)	The size of our own defense budget induces instability: Strongly Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors 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
Favors 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
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Stop subsidizing oil companies & their pollution: Strongly Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes 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
Favors 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