What are the issues that gets you to the polls? Anything

[In It to Win It]

I thought about this because someone told I should run for something... and I'm not selfless enough to run for public office and it looks miserable.

For me, my biggest issues are local. When I go to the polls and cast my vote, I don't think about me. I think about what would be good for other people because I think I'll be fine no matter what happens.

1) Affordable housing - I live in South Florida, born and raised. The cost of living is ridiculous. One of the things that worry me is the possibility of the local government letting real estate development run rampant with luxury developments, effectively making it too expensive for working class people. I think Miami is a prime example of letting luxury development get out of control. It becomes a city for the wealthy and everyone else trying to stay above water. Developers and local politicians like to tout how much investment there will be and the jobs it will bring... and it's usually all bullshit.

2) Militarization of the police - I don't want my local police to look like the US Army Special Forces. I don't think local law enforcement should have military grade equipment. This is an issue I would think is an issue the right can also get behind but apparently I thought wrong. I think gives the image that police have too much power, and in reality they do, and is essentially letting your local government have too much power via the police.

3) Access to affordable healthcare and affordable food options - There are many working class communities in my city and county that have no clinics close by or no affordable grocery stores close by (or no grocery stores at all) so people have to take time to commute via public transit to go to an affordable clinic for medical care or for affordable prescription drugs. This one breaks my heart most of all.

[meadowlander]

1. Keeping Republicans out of office.

[UTUSN]

2. Good answer!!!!!!!!!!!

[abqtommy]

12. I agree. As long as I'm able to vote it will be against reTHUG Fascists. nt

[MFM008]

3. we vote no matter what

only about 1077 people voted in our small town on around 6500 voted yesterday.
We vote almost every time. I think we missed one cycle.

[UTUSN]

4. Look, in the universe of running/winning - *issues* no. We all agree on our issues.

The alchemy of taking power is mystical:

* Sincerity.

* Charisma.

* Communication.

* Street smarts.

* Give'um hell Harry.

* Talk sense to the American people, Adlai.

[Skittles]

5. I remember the first time I voted in Texas

I had registered, but wasn't up to speed on the issues....then I got a robocall from a very anti-gay candidate and that prompted me to get up early (night shift worker) to go vote against that homophobe.....yes indeed

[Mr.Bill]

6. The local stuff is important to me, too.

I'm one of those people who at least occasionally will go to a City Council or county Board of Supervisor meeting. I study the personalities of those in office. I can spot an asshole in a matter of minutes usually. And I will work to get them out of office. I too have been told to run for office, but I'm enjoying retirement too much to do that. I wish sometimes I had done it when I was younger. I always vote, but what will get me to vote for a person is if they will look at me and listen to me and not ask me for money.

[lees1975]

7. I vote in every election

and I find out what the issues are and who's on what side.

We had a city council candidate's forum in our building last spring, mayor and a few council candidates. This was a city council election, btw. My first question to each candidate was, "Do you believe there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 election?" Furtive glances at each other, then the mayoral candidate firmly said, "No." He got a standing ovation from the 30 or so people in the room.

I committed to a straight ticket Democrat vote in '92 and have never voted for a Republican for office in any election since then.

[Lunabell]

8. My right as a citizen.

I need to be heard at least in this small way.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. Legalizing cannabis.

The issue that will bring millions out is staring the Democrats in the face, yet no one is talking about it.

WTF?!?

[Celerity]

13. Biden is against it, has been for 50 years

Democrats are embracing legal marijuana. Why is Biden reluctant to fully join the party?

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article254800067.html

As Democrats rally around marijuana legalization, President Joe Biden remains hesitant to fully embrace the idea, which some advocates say may be wasting an opportunity to appeal to a wide variety of voters.

“It’s an enormously powerful public policy lever,” said Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat who is running for U.S. Senate in the key swing state on a platform of marijuana legalization.

Fetterman called marijuana legalization the “big bazooka” that both Biden and then-President Donald Trump failed to use in the hotly contested 2020 election. Democrats shouldn’t repeat that mistake in future elections, he said.

“Whoever owns legal weed nationally, it’s all gravy. There’s no downside. None. When South Dakota democratically votes for it, in what circles is this controversial?” Fetterman said, noting that voters in deep red South Dakota approved recreational marijuana in the same year the state went strongly for Trump.

“When South Dakota and California agree on something, that should be a new national law,” said Fetterman, whose own state has not yet approved recreational use.

[FBaggins]

10. 1.) It's Election Day

There is no 2)

[llmart]

11. It's not any one issue that gets me to the polls.

It is my civic duty to vote after first becoming informed as to what is on the ballot and what it means to the community as a whole. I always vote for school and library millages. That's a given locally. I've voted since the year I turned 21.

[janterry]

14. The rights of women and girls

n/t

[Raine]

15. The environment and anything that benefits animals

nothing else is as important to me as those two things.