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Are you a single issue voter?
If so, what is the issue that makes or breaks your choice? By the same token, do you always vote straight party lines (all democrat or all republican)? Why is this so important to you?
Please keep the responses civil. I tend to vote both ways and vote my conscience as well. I'm curious how others think. And if you've always voted for a single party, is there anything that would change your mind (either rep or dem).?
13 Answers
- ★3cximhlc★Lv 51 decade agoFavourite answer
Before any election, I always start with a clean slate and carefully consider both candidates. One party almost always gets my vote, but I have crossed lines.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I suppose you could say that about me. I am an Independent and I vote for reasons that I consider to directly affect me, in order of how it will affect me. Family is first, then all the other stuff that I basically can live with as long as I have a personal choice in the matter. The war in Iraq is first on my list. Since I have a husband who will be returning to Iraq very soon, of course this affects me and my girls directly. And if you are not a military family, who does not have to continually answer the question "why is daddy always gone", then I don't expect this to be an issue for you.
However, it is for me. Any candidate who will even at least try to get the troops home in a reasonable time frame would get my vote. I really do not want to hear, "we will be there until we win". This is terrorism, it does not die, and it has never been beaten. Some may agree with that, some may not, that's the beauty of freedom, we each have our own choices to make. That is my single issue, everything else is a distant second.
- cantcuLv 71 decade ago
No not generally. I would not vote for McCain as he is not pro-choice and when he appoints the next supreme court justice (7 of 9 are Republican which is ridiculous) Roe V Wade will be overturned!
There are a lot of other reasons. One is that his claim that Obama is a big spender when his plans will put us in debt more than #2 TRILLION more than Obama, and he continues the tax cuts to the wealthy. I am tired of tax-cuts to the wealthy. We lost 600,000 jobs this year!
McCain also only showed up to vote 38% of the time and hasn't voted since April!
- Jill MLv 61 decade ago
No.
-I vote for the candidate who:
Is of good moral character, has experience, is a patriot or good citizen and agrees with my life philosophy. I want someone that has good ideas about fixing the economy, ending dependence on foreign oil sooner rather than later, creating jobs and growing the economy NOT the government. I am a capitalististic, Christian, small business owner.
I don't always vote straight ticket but probably will this year.
McCaine/Palin '08
- haspelLv 45 years ago
you're questioning like a Democrat. I were very lively contained in the Republican social gathering for decades and no one i comprehend even MENTIONS abortion. we are unmarried mission voters in this election. the mission is OBAMA. he's punctiliously unacceptable for causes starting from nationwide safe practices to the economy to the straightforward reality the all of us comprehend so little about his previous. The media has no longer lengthy previous into issues that we were waiting to make sure actual through purely googling his record in Illinois as a "community organizer" and a State Senator. His lack of substance is appalling. Obama has done no longer something of fee in both of his non-compulsory places of artwork, except help political individuals, associates or perhaps his own spouse make funds, frequently utilising federal and state money to achieve this. His community organizing artwork develop into with far-left, frequently radical communities, at the same time with ACORN, a set properly established for election fraud violations. Obama remains linked with ACORN and they are helping with the large voter registration rigidity for his campaign, a topic that the media is amazingly actual ignoring. The economy and the international? they are going to propose little if we've a guy lacking in personality contained in the White residing house.
- Jenny CLv 61 decade ago
No I am not a single issue person. And I am a Democrat but vote for the person not the party. I am voting McCain this time.
- leopardladyLv 61 decade ago
Not quite single issue. More like single topic.
I will vote for the most fiscally conservative candidate. Cut expenses and cut taxes.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No, I am not. However, when I weigh all the issues, I always seem to land in the democrat's camp, overall.
If the republicans became less hawkish and more environmentally aware, that might swing me to their side.
I approve of fiscal conservatism, but that is certainly not what I am seeing in the Iraq war!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Voting out all the Rep ideology that got us into this mess with the economy, poison food and water, bridges falling down and killing people. That's what deregulation does.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I want to get out of credit card debt and obama has said he will change bankruptcy laws and make it easier for people to file and get a second chance.