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VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background)	Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation)
Strongly Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (-5 points on Social scale)	Opposes public abortion funding: Opposes topic 1 Opposes churches providing birth control: Opposes topic 1 Life and human rights begin at fertilization or cloning: Strongly Opposes topic 1 No family planning assistance that includes abortion: Strongly Opposes topic 1
Opposes topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (+2 points on Economic scale)	Affirmative actions programs only ok without quotas: Opposes topic 2 NO on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act: Opposes topic 2
Strongly Opposes topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (-5 points on Social scale)	Supports a DOMA amendment: Strongly Opposes topic 3
Favors topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-3 points on Social scale)	Supports banning funding of offensive art: Favors topic 4
Strongly Opposes topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (+5 points on Economic scale)	Challenge incumbent because he supported ObamaCare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Supported Sen. Ted Cruz's fight to stop ObamaCare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Supports repealing ObamaCare: Strongly Opposes topic 5
Strongly Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+5 points on Economic scale)	Rated 0% by ARA, indicating a pro-privatization stance: Strongly Favors topic 6 Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings: Favors topic 6
Strongly Favors topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (+5 points on Economic scale)	Vouchers for public, private or religious schools: Strongly Favors topic 7
Strongly Favors topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (-5 points on Social scale)	Our timber, our money: more harvest means more school funds: Strongly Favors topic 8 Limit number of Endangered Species habitats: Strongly Favors topic 8 Sponsored no permits for legal pesticide runoff into lakes & streams: Strongly Favors topic 8 Build Keystone XL; it's now passed environmental concerns: No opin. on topic 8
Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-3 points on Social scale)	Rated 38% by the NAPO, indicating a police-the-police stance: Strongly Opposes topic 9 More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty: Favors topic 9 Megan's Law: public list of sexually violent offenders: Strongly Favors topic 9 YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder: Strongly Favors topic 9 YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals: Opposes topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	AdWatch: If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted: Strongly Favors topic 10 AR-15 giveaway: the perfect Mother's Day gift: Strongly Favors topic 10 Consider impeachment for Obama's unilateral gun controls: Strongly Favors topic 10 Opposes restricting the Second Amendment: Favors topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+5 points on Economic scale)	Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Opposes increasing tax rates: Opposes topic 11 Supports eliminating the inheritance tax: Opposes topic 11 Repeal the death tax, immediately and with no expiration: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Repeal marriage tax; cut middle class taxes: Opposes topic 11
Strongly Opposes topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (-5 points on Social scale)	Opposes comprehensive immigration bill, and no negotiation: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Constitutional amendment: No citizenship for anchor babies: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Supports official English; opposes birthright citizenship: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Stop releasing low-risk illegal immigrants: Opposes topic 12
Strongly Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-5 points on Economic scale)	Opposes NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and MFN: Strongly Opposes topic 13
Favors topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (+2 points on Economic scale)	No foreign aid to Russia, nor any country except for defense: Strongly Favors topic 14 Sponsored opposing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty: Strongly Favors topic 14 Condemn China's organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners: Opposes topic 14
Favors topic 15: Expand the military (-3 points on Social scale)	No US troops under UN command; more defense spending: Favors topic 15
Strongly Opposes topic 16: Make voter registration easier (-5 points on Social scale)	Preventing voter ID law just aids voter fraud: Strongly Opposes topic 16
Strongly Opposes topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-5 points on Social scale)	Syria is Obama's folly: return the Nobel Peace Prize: Strongly Opposes topic 17
Strongly Opposes topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+5 points on Economic scale)	EPA blocking Exxon coal exports costs Texans 13,000 jobs: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Let states lease energy rights on federal lands: Strongly Opposes topic 18
Neutral on topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (0 points on Social scale)	Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs: Strongly Favors topic 19 Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana: Opposes topic 19 Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws: Opposes topic 19
Opposes topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+2 points on Economic scale)	Audit the Federal Reserve & its actions on mortgage loans: Opposes topic 20 YES on prioritizing spending in case debt limit is reached: Opposes topic 20