What are the three most important issues to you?

[TimberValley]

Environment? Economy? Gender equality? Gay rights? Health care? Education? Etc. etc.

[Brother Buzz]

1. I'm still waiting for the flying cars we were promised

Health care, education and the environment are high on my list

[KansDem]

26. I agree: "Health care, education and the environment are high on my list."

And I'm still waiting for the jet packs...

[Tree-Hugger]

2. Tough one

The environment, gay rights and I am going to say it's a tie between education and health care.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. War, abortion rights, civil liberties.

[ladjf]

4. Economy, health, education, environment. nt

[SamKnause]

5. Issues

1. Corruption in government; we can't get anything accomplished as long as our politicians are bought and paid for. No prosecutions for Wall Street, no trials for the Bush administration, fining corporate CEOs instead of jailing them are just a few examples.

2. Lobbyist and corporations have more rights then living breathing humans; they hold all the cards when it comes to labor issues and all important issues that face this country; the environment, wars, wages, workplace safety, etc.

3. Wars, invasions, occupations, coup attempts, financing coups, drone attacks, supplying the world with weapons, training militaries, torture; the U.S. is creating 100's of new enemies everyday.

[flamingdem]

6. Environment, fighting the right wing, justice for the 99% here and abroad nt

[Whisp]

7. that's a toughy. I would probably say corruption.

get rid of that and if you have honest people working for us all, most of our problems could be dealt with.

[Whiskeytide]

15. That's it exactly...

I might add "hypocrisy without conscience or remorse", but that's really a subset of corruption.

[Brickbat]

8. Labor, economy and health care, which for me includes abortion.

So, 3.5.

[opiate69]

9. Healthcare, Corporatocracy, Education

[hfojvt]

10. what an easy question, my three most important things are

me, myself, and I

or maybe the three P's

progressive taxes
poverty
peace

and also, harsher penalties for parole violators

[XemaSab]

11. Environment, education, separation of church and state

[upaloopa]

12. I think the income inequality and the

take over of everything by capitalists turning us into a third world country were opportunity is growing ever harder to get to.

[forestpath]

13. abortion rights, civil rights, Social Security/Medicare

[closeupready]

14. Campaign finance reform, progressive taxation, reduction of military spending.

Essentially, what post #5 says more eloquently.

[petronius]

16. Environment, Equality, Human Development*

Can I cheat and say that "human development" means employment, health care, education, quality of life, access to arts/libraries/parks, etc...?

[mike_c]

17. foreign policy, environment, health care....

Tough call, but those are my three. Today.

[LeftInTX]

18. 1. Voting rights, fair elections, campaign reform

I put voting rights, fair election etc as the most important. In some respects this encompasses civil rights too.

2.Economy which includes support for health care and social program. The economy, I lump a bunch of things such as adequate revenues so their can be programs, Social Security etc.

3.Avoidance of war, while at the same time trying to keep our country safe. Which I think is a very realistic goal.

[truebluegreen]

19. Environment. Income inequality. Economy.

[Jamaal510]

20. Jobs, health care, and national security.

[randome]

21. 1. Environment. 2. Environment. 3. Environment.

[raouldukelives]

23. Hey, exactly my answer. nt

[randome]

24. We won't have a chance for choices 2 and 3 if we don't have a planet to live on.

[reformist2]

22. This would be a great poll question. Can it be set up to give us three choices?

[TimberValley]

25. I would have liked to but I don't have that ability. nt.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. The environment, stopping the Republicans, health care. n/t

[TeamPooka]

28. ending the drug war, ending prisons for profit and domestic job creation

or from another angle: civil rights and the economy

[JimDandy]

29. Constitutional rights, Corporate influence, Open government. n/t

[Eleanors38]

30. Overhauling Democratic Party, economic justice, education.

[PD Turk]

31. Labor, environent and equality

Of course we can't fix any of that until we repair the systemic failure that throws roadblocks in front of any real progressive reforms in favor of more goodies for the wealthiest few

[calimary]

32. The right to choose, the environment, and voting rights.

If I'm forced to choose only three.

I'd also add civil rights and massacre machines - and our being held hostage by them.

But for me, a woman's right to choose ranks first. On any list. Across the board. And non-negotiable. Any more than I'd push to start legislating the penis and scrotum and all personal matters thereof.

[PDJane]

33. Environment, Education, Health Care.

Fix those and the Economy will, eventually, fix itself.

I consider the right to choose whether or not to bear a child in with health care. It is, for a woman, a health care issue.

[Rex]

34. Regulation, oversight and penalizing

Big Business when they fuck up.

[Initech]

35. Right to a living wage, equal rights for everyone, right to education.

[CalFresh]

36. Wow.

Nobody said freedom.

[darkangel218]

42. Freedom falls under constitutional rights i think.

[Cal Carpenter]

37. Economy, economy, economy

Until we have a little more democracy as far as economics goes, most other issues are moot, unfortunately.

[Tikki]

38. Environment because of where I live, Social Security and Medicare because of my age and...

Education because I have grandchildren.


Tikki

[Inkfreak]

39. 3 that jump to my mind immediately

Economy. LGBT Rights. Social safety nets, in the sense of helping our poor. Basically getting our shit straight in-house.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

40. I tried to answer this, and failed to define "issue" to my own satisfaction.

"The Economy" is clearly the Big Thing at the moment, but I'm not sure it's a single issue.

"Education" is also very important, but ditto.

[darkangel218]

41. HEALTHCARE, ECONOMY AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

43. The Plutonomy, Election Fraud, Poverty/Education.

Poverty/Education counts as one since either improves the other.

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Environment, number 1

jobs, health care.

[rurallib]

45. 1) money in politics 2) corrupt officials 3) rebuilding America w/environment in mind

3 will cure several other issues like jobs

[customerserviceguy]

46. The economy, the economy, and the economy

And if we get that straight, then we can also work on staying out of no-win wars.

[Adsos Letter]

47. Church/State separation

1. Church/State separation
2. Church/State separation
3. Church/State separation

The route we take on that effects the route we take on all the others.

[Art_from_Ark]

48. If the choices are limited to three, then

Environment, civil rights, and social services

[sarisataka]

49. Economy, healthcare, education

We need economy to fund anything else, current healthcare is a crisis, then education. Hopefully the third will take care of corruption, environment, injustice......................

[LiberalAndProud]

50. In the interest of trying to unmuck what we have mucked so badly,

healthy environment, quality public education, and sustainable foreign policy that doesn't rely on unlimited military spending. These things will mitigate the damage we have inflicted on our future generations.

[Jackpine Radical]

51. My %^$#@ Pony, Goddamit.

Environment. Election reform. Destruction of capitalism & its replacement with communitariansism.

Other than that, nothing much.

[seabeyond]

52. sorry. gender equality. that is the strongest area i see attack. 2000 was the right fundie coalition

2003/2004 i saw the attack on liberal. today i see the battle is misogyny.

[unrepentant progress]

53. Economic equality and civil liberties (all of them)

Is there really anything else? Seriously? I don't think so.

[Honeycombe8]

54. Economy. Health Care. Seniors' programs (Medicare, SS). Then environment.

But they're all so important, and actually affect each other in ways, that it's difficult to list them in order of importance.

[Hippo_Tron]

55. They rotate based on what I think is politically possible at the time

For example, campaign finance reform is a huge issue for me. But right now there's basically nothing that can be done about it with the Supreme Court we have. Fortunately, Supreme Court justices don't spend all of eternity on the bench (though it can feel like it) and eventually we will have different ones. It's just something we're going to have to wait out.

Similarly gay rights is of huge importance to me right now, in particular, because historic gains have been made in the past several years and we're in a position to make even more gains on the issue. Now is the time when we CAN make a huge difference on that issue.

[Warpy]

56. Only three?

Women's access to reproductive health care, all of it.

Jobs, including raising wages.

Abandoning for profit health insurance and moving to a single payer system.

I also want to see executive pay indexed to worker pay, a transaction tax on Wall Street, and a return to a progressive income tax structure, itself a disincentive to greed.

[Summer Hathaway]

57. I would have to say

my Number One issue is cleaning up the cesspit that the MSM has become.

The public perception of ALL important issues flows directly therefrom. Skewed information emanating from the MSM is responsible for people voting against their own interests, because those interests are invariably the subject of misleading information - and, more importantly, those spewing non-facts are permitted to do so in the interest of being "fair and balanced".

If what passes for 'journalism' these days was held to a higher standard that MUST be adhered to, the public would KNOW where their own interests truly lie.

Just one example: If the MSM accurately reported how universal healthcare works in every other nation that has embraced it, and challenged the RW version thereof, the public would not be merely discussing universal healthcare - they'd be DEMANDING it.

[Skittles]

58. Jobs, healthcare, protection of SS and Medicare

[peace13]

59. Health care, stop drones/wars, health care! Nt

[Texasgal]

60. LBGT Rights,

Women's rights.

Health Care.

Easy.

[Smarmie Doofus]

61. Saving democracy from oligarchs, Education and LGBT equality.

More or less in that order.

[sweetapogee]

62. all new

Infrastructure
Rural Mass Transit
Urban Living Space (a healthy minimum of 1 acre free personal real property per person).

[rug]

63. War, capitalist profiteering, police state

[LostOne4Ever]

64. First and FOREMOST

First and FOREMOST Civil Rights and Liberties. Then War and finally healthcare.

Yeah im cheating on the first one.

To me civil rights and Liberties includes: Free Speech, Gay Rights, women's rights, minority rights, religious rights/seperation of church and state, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, privacy, etc...

These are far and away the issues I care most about.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

65. House, Senate, President

Without these three things we'll never get to #4 and thereafter.