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What influences my vote?
I'm anti-death penalty.
I'm pro-choice. I don't know that I could have an abortion, but until we expand on our contraceptive freedoms, I don't feel comfortable taking that right away from others.
I support comprehensive sex education. Abstinence-only has not ever worked and America has an embarassingly high teen pregnancy rate given our status in the world.
I believe in tighter gun control. I don't want to take away the right to bear arms. I want to take away the right to bear Uzis. I firmly believe that the less of these guns that are out there, the fewer miscreants that will have them.
I'm in support of more funding for education - but funding that pays for teachers and raw capital, not administrators. I think school vouchers are a great theory but don't work in practice.
I oppose privatization of Social Security. For every person it would benefit, there would be more who lost money and were destitute and elderly.
I'm not a hippie liberal like everybody thinks - but I vote Democrat because I don't see the Republican party truly caring about the less fortunate.
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