Pro-life | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? |
Yes | b) Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy? |
Yes | c) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? |
Yes | d) Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered? |
No | e) Should federal subsidies be prohibited from being used for abortion procedures? |
f) Other or expanded principles |
1) Spending | |
Indicate what federal funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category- you can use a number more than once. | |
Maintain Status | a) Agriculture |
Maintain Status | b) Arts |
Maintain Status | c) Defense |
Maintain Status | 1) Intelligence operations |
Maintain Status | 2) Military hardware |
Maintain Status | 3) National missile defense |
Maintain Status | 4) Salary and benefits for active duty personnel |
Maintain Status | 5) Programs to improve troop retention rates |
Maintain Status | 6) Research and development of new weapons |
Slightly Increase | d) Education |
Slightly Increase | e) Environment |
Maintain Status | f) Homeland security |
Maintain Status | g) International aid |
Slightly Increase | h) Medical research |
Maintain Status | i) Scientific research |
Maintain Status | j) Space exploration |
Maintain Status | k) United Nations |
Maintain Status | l) Welfare |
m) Other or expanded categories | |
2) Taxes | |
Indicate what federal tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category- you can use a number more than once. | |
Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes |
Slightly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes |
Maintain Status | c) Cigarette taxes |
Slightly Decrease | d) Corporate taxes |
Slightly Decrease | e) Gasoline taxes |
Slightly Decrease | f) Income taxes (low-income families) |
Slightly Decrease | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) |
Slightly Decrease | h) Income taxes (high-income families) |
i) Other or expanded categories | |
Yes | 3) Do you support the elimination of the federal estate tax? |
Yes | 4) Do you support requiring the federal budget to be balanced each year? |
Yes | 5) Do you support using government funds in an effort to stimulate and improve the economy? |
6) Other or expanded principles |
No | a) Do you support privatizing elements of Social Security? |
Yes | b) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? |
No | c) Do you support increasing the federal minimum wage? |
Yes | d) Do you support the ability of workers to unionize? |
Yes | e) Do you support federal funding for job-training programs that retrain displaced workers? |
f) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Do you support increasing the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns? |
Yes | b) Should Congress regulate indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? |
No | c) Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns? |
Yes | d) Should candidates for federal office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? |
No | e) Do you support giving the President the power of the line item veto for items concerning appropriations? |
No | f) Do you support limiting the President's ability to define how legislation is applied through the use of signing statements? |
g) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? |
Yes | b) Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related training and job-placement assistance when released? |
Yes | c) Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with substance abuse treatment? |
No | d) Do you support reduced prison sentences for non-violent offenders? |
No | e) Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs? |
f) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Do you support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students? |
Yes | b) Do you support federal funding for universal pre-K programs? |
Yes | c) Do you support federal funding for charter schools? |
Yes | d) Do you support federal funding for K-12 school vouchers? |
Yes | e) Do you support the federal government providing college students with financial aid? |
f) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? |
Yes | b) Do you support international emissions targets aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? |
No | c) Do you support allowing energy producers to trade carbon credits under a "cap and trade" system? |
Yes | d) Do you support strengthening fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles? |
No | e) Do you support domestic oil exploration in federally-protected areas? |
Yes | f) Do you support federal funding for the development of alternative energy? |
Yes | g) Do you support the development of nuclear reactors? |
h) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? |
Yes | b) Do you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individual citizens to own guns? |
No | c) Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns? |
d) Do you support a ban on assault rifles? | |
e) Other or expanded principles |
Unknown Position | a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option? |
b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | |
Yes | c) Should the federal government expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts? |
No | d) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? |
No | e) Do you support relaxing regulations on the importation of prescription drugs? |
f) Other or expanded principles |
No | a) Do you support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants? |
Yes | b) Do you support decreasing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country? |
Yes | c) Do you support establishing English as the official national language? |
Yes | d) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? |
e) Other or expanded principles |
No | a) Do you support United States military action in Afghanistan? |
No | b) Do you support increasing military assistance for Afghanistan? |
No | c) Do you support increasing economic development assistance for Afghanistan? |
Yes | d) Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan? |
Yes | e) Do you support granting aid to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States? |
f) Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state? | |
Yes | g) Do you support increasing sanctions on Iran if it continues to defy United Nations mandates? |
Yes | h) Do you support the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq? |
Yes | i) Do you support the United States' involvement in free trade agreements? |
j) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? |
No | b) Do you support allowing openly-gay men and women to serve in the United States military? |
Yes | c) Do you support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research? |
No | d) Should the federal government end affirmative action programs? |
e) Other or expanded principles |