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Originally Posted by BryNTP
Rank your top 3 most important issues for the upcoming election and who you are planning on voting for based solely on those top issues. I might add a poll when I see enough of the same issues over and over again, but it would have to be just your top issue.
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1) Civil Liberties
2) Health Care
3) Development of renewable energy
I don't trust McCain to act in my interests on any of those so that makes my choice fairly clear. If I thought Nader or Paul would actually have a shot, then maybe I'd vote for one of them, overall I do like Obama and Biden and their views on most things, but Obama's vote for the FISA bill makes me less comoftable than I'd like to be about how much he actualy values my primary issue, but at least I think he will be more motivated to pursue renewable energy as a priority and McCain's ideas on healthcare do not seem any better than what we have now.
The economy and education are also important to me, but would be ranked 4 and 5 repectivly and on both of those. I think the green new deal idea that Obama has hinted at could be a viable path toward economic recovery. I like that Obama seems concerened about Education, but his big push saying we need mroe focus on "math and science" concerns me, no no no!, we need more emphisis on helping kids discover what they are good at as individuals and encouraging their growth on a path thats right for them (and for some that will be math and science) not this same old force kids to learn what we think they should learn approach! If you foce kids to take classes they don't care about, they are not going to get much out of it, and putting them in those classes takes time away from them potentialy learnign things they could excell at and get motivated about.