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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Pro-choice: focused on infant and maternal mortality: Strongly Favors topic 1 A decision between a woman and her doctor: Strongly Favors topic 1 Planned Parenthood endorsement: will fight new restrictions: Strongly Favors topic 1 Longtime supporter of contraceptive access & abortion rights: Strongly Favors topic 1 Supports Roe and a woman's right to choose: Strongly Favors topic 1 Judicially liberal, according to CC survey: Favors topic 1 Pro-Planned Parenthood, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 1 Anti-parental notification, according to CC survey: Favors topic 1 Pro-choice, according to PVS survey: Strongly Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Protesters calling for change, believes change is possible: Strongly Favors topic 2 Nexus of taken a wrecking ball to African Americans: Strongly Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+5 points on Social scale)	Endorsed by Human Rights Campaign: Strongly Favors topic 3 Protect LGBTQ+ from housing, financial, job discrimination: Strongly Favors topic 3 No such thing as equal rights for some; yes to Equality Act: Strongly Favors topic 3 Pro-transgender bathrooms, according to CC survey: Favors topic 3
Strongly Favors topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-5 points on Social scale)	Have a moral foundation for everything that we do: Favors topic 4 I'm a Matthew 25 Christian: love your neighbor: Favors topic 4 Youngest pastor to lead Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church: Favors topic 4 2008: Joined black pastors defending controversial sermons: Strongly Favors topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Arrested in 2014 when GA refused to expand Medicaid: Strongly Favors topic 5 AdWatch: Don't get rid of healthcare in middle of a pandemic: Favors topic 5 Protect, improve, build upon the Affordable Care Act: Strongly Favors topic 5 COVID: We need leadership that believes in science: Strongly Favors topic 5 Expand Medicaid, protect Medicare: Strongly Favors topic 5 Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices: Strongly Favors topic 5 Expand Medicaid to help with long-term care services: Strongly Favors topic 5 Will focus on expanding quality, affordable health care: Favors topic 5 2014: Arrested at demonstration for Medicaid expansion: Strongly Favors topic 5 COVID: Crisis handled like country with no resources at all: Strongly Favors topic 5 Expand Medicaid; keep children's health care: Strongly Favors topic 5 Reform is personal, older brother sentenced to life: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Mass incarceration about segregation, loss of voting rights: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Pro-ObamaCare, according to PVS survey: Favors topic 5
Strongly Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-5 points on Economic scale)	Opposes raising retirement age or privatizing benefits: Strongly Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Supports robust Pre-K, invest in schools and teachers: Strongly Opposes topic 7
Strongly Favors topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (-5 points on Social scale)	Environmental justice is on the ballot: Strongly Favors topic 8 Pro-GHG restrictions, according to PVS survey: Strongly Favors topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale)	You can affirm what officers do; hold them accountable: Opposes topic 9 Police accountability and bias training, against defunding: Strongly Opposes topic 9 We have to continue to push back against police brutality: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Prison system discriminates against people of color: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Let independent prosecutors handle police-involved shootings: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Mass incarceration a scar on the soul of America: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Let ex-cons apply freely, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-5 points on Economic scale)	Endorsed by Everytown for Gun Safety: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Answer to gun violence isn't masses of people carrying guns: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Guns not allowed in Capitol, but allowed in our schools?: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Pro-gun rights, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Undo tax cuts, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 11 Keep inheritance tax, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 11 Anti-corporate tax cuts, according to PVS survey: Strongly Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	Jesus was an "undocumented immigrant": Strongly Favors topic 12 Pro-immigrant, according to PVS survey: 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)
Strongly Favors topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (+5 points on Economic scale)	Four greatest words in democracy: "The people have spoken": Strongly Favors topic 14 America at its highest: equal voting, health care, education: Favors topic 14
Strongly Favors topic 15: Expand the military (-5 points on Social scale)	Ensure our military remains the strongest in the world: Strongly Favors topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Endorsed as "leader in battle against Big Money in politics": Strongly Favors topic 16 Voter suppression happens all across the country: Strongly Favors topic 16 Will work to pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act: Strongly Favors topic 16 Restore oversight provisions of Voting Rights Act: Strongly Favors topic 16 Fraud almost nonexistent; really about voter suppression: Strongly Favors topic 16 Restore Federal election oversight under Voting Rights Act: Strongly Favors topic 16 Restore Voting Rights Act to ensure elections are fair: Strongly Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (+2 points on Social scale)	Use diplomacy as first resort; speak out against tyrants: Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Endorsed by LCV to tackle the climate crisis: Strongly Favors topic 18 Climate change is here, way past time to get serious: Strongly Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	Marijuana: wants to decriminalize: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Need to invest in infrastructure, green energy jobs: Strongly Favors topic 20 Created community financial literacy center: Strongly Favors topic 20 Social safety net is unique work of government: Strongly Favors topic 20 A stimulus package must help working people, not just rich: Strongly Favors topic 20 COVID exacerbates inequality in economics & health care: Strongly Favors topic 20

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