VoteMatch Responses
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VoteMatch Question & Answer
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Strongly Favors
topic 1:Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Opposes defunding Planned Parenthood: Strongly Favors topic 1
Welcome women to CA from states without abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1
Provide full reproductive services in jails and prisons: Strongly Favors topic 1
Repeal law requiring coroners to investigate stillbirths: Strongly Favors topic 1 |
Favors
topic 2:Legally require hiring women & minorities
(-3 points on Economic scale)
| Supports affirmative action: Strongly Favors topic 2
Shift from group preferences to economic empowerment of all: Neutral on topic 2 |
Strongly Favors
topic 3:Comfortable with same-sex marriage
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Early supporter for gay marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3
Took initiative in issuing of same sex marriage licenses: Strongly Favors topic 3
2004: Performed same-sex marriage despite state ban: Strongly Favors topic 3 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 4:Keep God in the public sphere
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Strict separation of church and state: Strongly Opposes topic 4 |
Strongly Favors
topic 5:Expand ObamaCare
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Supports HealthySF: available to all uninsured residents: Strongly Favors topic 5
We will lead a massive expansion of health care: Strongly Favors topic 5
CalAIM: physical health & mental health inextricably linked: Favors topic 5
COVID: Science--not politics--drove our decisions: Favors topic 5
State employees to get vaccinated or regular testing: Strongly Favors topic 5
First state to offer universal access to healthcare: Strongly Favors topic 5
Proposed Health For All, regardless of immigration status: Strongly Favors topic 5
Expanded health care to millions of uninsured Californians: Strongly Favors topic 5
Establish "report cards" on HMO quality of care: Favors topic 5 |
Favors
topic 6:Privatize Social Security
(+2 points on Economic scale)
| Create Retirement Savings Accounts: Favors topic 6 |
Opposes
topic 7:Vouchers for school choice
(-3 points on Economic scale)
| Offer every parent Charter Schools and public school choice: Opposes topic 7 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 8:Fight EPA regulatory over-reach
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Pro-active on energy and resource management: Strongly Opposes topic 8
The water we drink & the air we breathe hang in the balance: Opposes topic 8
Radically ramp up forest management efforts: Strongly Opposes topic 8 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 9:Stricter punishment reduces crime
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Criminal justice reform is crucial; repeal death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Death penalty is ineffective, irreversible and immoral: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Moratorium on the California death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Spared 737 people on California's death row: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Moratorium on death penalty; disassembled death chamber: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Bolster police, more prosecutors, get guns off the street: Favors topic 9
Cut administrative fees on people in criminal justice system: Strongly Opposes topic 9 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 10:Absolute right to gun ownership
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Supports background checks: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Allow suits against gun makers for negligence: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Lift statutory cap on concealed carry license fee: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Prevent unauthorized firearm use with "smart gun" technology: Opposes topic 10 |
Strongly Favors
topic 11:Higher taxes on the wealthy
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Supports tax hikes for public good: Strongly Favors topic 11 |
Favors
topic 12:Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens
(+2 points on Social scale)
| Sanctuary cities build trust: Strongly Favors topic 12
Border wall is just rhetoric; celebrate diversity: Strongly Opposes topic 12
There is no border crisis; the wall is just xenophobia: Favors topic 12
National Guard for crime on border, not immigration: Favors topic 12 |
Favors
topic 13:Support & expand free trade
(+2 points on Economic scale)
| Build a rule-based global trading system: Favors topic 13 |
Favors
topic 14:Support American Exceptionalism
(+2 points on Economic scale)
| Californians are VIPs of GDP: 1 in 7 new jobs since 2010: Favors topic 14 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 15:Expand the military
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Don't gut programs to pay for military buildup: Strongly Opposes topic 15 |
Strongly Favors
topic 16:Make voter registration easier
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Campaigned to boost student registration: Strongly Favors topic 16
COVID: all registered voters receive mail-in ballots: Strongly Favors topic 16 |
Favors
topic 17:Avoid foreign entanglements
(+2 points on Social scale)
| Progressive Internationalism: globalize with US pre-eminence: Favors topic 17 |
Strongly Favors
topic 18:Prioritize green energy
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| California leads the way on green energy: Strongly Favors topic 18
New cars & trucks in California to be zero-emission by 2035: Strongly Favors topic 18
We will write the playbook on confronting climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18
We need to be fighting polluters, not bolstering them: Strongly Favors topic 18
Supports tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases: Favors topic 18 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 19:Marijuana is a gateway drug
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Pushed Proposition 64, legalizing adult use of marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19
I'm not pro-pot, but anti-prohibition; opposed 2010 Prop 19: Opposes topic 19
Let California legalization continue: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Supports recreational marijuana but no black market: Opposes topic 19 |
Strongly Favors
topic 20:Stimulus better than market-led recovery
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Government has role in economic growth: Strongly Favors topic 20
Opportunity zones worthy of bipartisan support: Favors topic 20
$2.6 billion in grants to small businesses & nonprofits: Strongly Favors topic 20
Invest more in fighting wildfires, tackling historic drought: Strongly Favors topic 20
Homelessness must be at the top of our agenda: Strongly Favors topic 20
Nearly $2 billion to create more homeless housing: Strongly Favors topic 20
Address homelessness with 55,000 new housing units: Strongly Favors topic 20 |