What's the most important campaign issue to you?

[denverbill]

I made it simple too. Even you freepers can vote. I didn't ask if 'gun control' was important, just guns in general, pro or con. Same with abortion.

I'm talking about the single most important thing you vote based on. Assume the worst. Assume that your only choice is between a candidate that supported that one issue and one who opposed it, and that both candidates were identical on every other issue.

[Ficus]

1. Civil Liberties

nt

[redqueen]

2. Civil Liberties here as well.

We are losing what so many have died for. :(

[edzontar]

7. The War stands for eveything else....

The War epitomizes the Bush misadministration in its PUREST form--pure lying, hatred, murder, and incompetence.

[Zynx]

3. Iraq.

This is the important issue for me and it is the lense by which I look at candidates. It has also completely redefined my opinion of the Democratic Party's leadership in the House and the Senate and I am now convinced that the party needs a complete overhaul. The darkest day in our party's(and our country's) history was when the majority of Democratic senators voted for the IWR, including our supposed leaders.

[lyonn]

13. Iraq

Amen, and i'm agnostic. There was a time when our Supreme Court Justices were very high on my list of important issues, along with not messing with our tort laws that would only punish a Corp., etc. with punitive damages in an amount 250,000. or less which would give Corps. a license to put all kinds of defective and harmful products on the helpless public, womens rights, the environment, alternative fuel . . . could go on and on. That's why I changed my party last year. But, you are sooo right, this war is killing our soldiers!! And for what?

[slackmaster]

4. Failure of the USA to fully adopt the Metric System

The rest of the civilized world and most of uncivilized world measures everything in the logical, universal Metric System.

When will the US get with the program?

Where is the outrage?

[JVS]

17. Metric NOW!

[bicentennial_baby]

19. I'm with you on that one

Metrics now!

[confusionisnext]

24. hear hear

Maybe not at the top of my list, but come on, foot-pounds?

What's important for me is
civil rights
civil liberties
equal economic opportunity
judicial appointments

[jhfenton]

28. Metric now!

I love the metric system!

Quick, how many cups are in a quart? How many yards are in a mile?

OK, how many meters are in a KILOmeter?

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Fewer deaths

of people of all nationalities, both outside the US and in it.

[Kanary]

16. Exactly!

And that means more attention to "social issues".... medical care, adequate and safe housing for all, and figuring out how to actually reduce violence.

But, there's no profit in any of that....

Kanary

[elfwitch]

6. Only one issue is important...

Getting rid of Bush.
All other issues are secondary at best to this one.

[absolutezero]

23. exactly

getting rid of whistle ass will help us on all the other issues

[grannylib]

8. Civil liberties here too...and judicial nominees a close second

[rucky]

9. Universal Healthcare n/t

[DFLforever]

10. Civil liberties is No 1 for me

then Iraq war/foreign policy, then the economy and social contract.


edit: typo

[denverbill]

11. Hmm. I obviously should've included civil liberties as a category.

I didn't even consider that one. I considered gay rights, BBV, and a few others, but didn't even think about civil liberties.

[DemExpat]

12. International relations!

As an ex-pat and very internatinally oriented, this is my number 1 issue.

:kick:

DemEx

[Undemcided]

14. The amount of debt.

Government growing by 27% worries me.

[funkyflathead]

15. Domestic security n/t

[absyntheNsugar]

18. Getting Bush* out of office. Period.

That should be the only issue.

[stevebreeze]

20. Campaign finance reform should not be overlooked

If the GOP was not allowed to buy elections we would not have shuch extreamest in office.
:kick:

[burr]

22. and don't forget democracy, anyone...

you know, no taxation without representation! One man-one vote. No man is above the law, certainly not those who enforce it. The primaries are elections, not eyewash!

All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable including life, liberity, and the pursuit of happiness;

To secure these rights, governments deriving their just powers from the "consent of the governed"; that WHENEVER ANY GOVERNMENT becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to ALTER or ABOLISH IT, and to institute NEW GOVERNMENT, as to them seem most likely to effect their SAFETY and HAPPINESS.

But when a LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES and USURPATIONS, pursuing invariable the same object, it is THEIR DUTY, to THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, and to provide NEW GUARDS for their FUTURE SECURITY.

The most important issue to me in 2004, will our votes count...and what is our DUTY if they don't?

[Mz Pip]

21. Getting rid of Bush

because another Bush term will have serious ramifications for all of the issues listed.

A Bush second term will be the RW unleashed. SInce they won't have to worry about the messy problem of another Bush election, they will just have at it. 50 years of progress will be down the tubes.

MzPip
:dem:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

25. Winning. eom

[Zero Division]

26. Iraq/Foreign Policy or Anti-Tax Insanity: Too hard to decide

N/T

[jhfenton]

27. Civil Liberties

Since civil liberties weren't on there, I selected guns. Since that is one civil liberties issue among many. Unfortunately, it's the one civil liberties issue that most of our candidates are on the wrong side of.