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In reply to the discussion: In 5 words or fewer, what is THE top issue influencing your vote in 2016? [View all]calimary
(90,138 posts)147. All of the above, but I'd move "The Right to Choose" up to Number ONE.
Maybe should be "Reproductive Rights". Because what's happening now is endangering every woman's right to access not only safe and legal abortion when/if needed but also access to contraceptives; access to family planning counseling; access to honest gynecologists advice - since politicians seem to want to practice medicine without a license these days; and access to a plain ol' Planned Parenthood clinic even just to get a mammogram or a Pap smear.
Second would be "Defeating republi-CONS."
Everything else follows thereafter, and all those issues are worthy.
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In 5 words or fewer, what is THE top issue influencing your vote in 2016? [View all]
Algernon Moncrieff
Jun 2015
OP
A path to immigration, glbtq citizens added to civil rights laws, access to medical care regardless
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2015
#14
+1 This is it for me too. I'll just add one more thing issue for me. Gun violence. nt
lunamagica
Jun 2015
#63
I just wanted a five word or fewer synopsis of the issue in the title
Algernon Moncrieff
Jun 2015
#72
Well put!! Thanks for putting my thoughts into words! I wish I could rec your post...
haikugal
Jun 2015
#73
Soc. Sec and Medicare, as Paul Ryan and Obama via TAA are trying to gut it right now!
TheNutcracker
Jun 2015
#58
"Is the candidate a Democrat?" (See how that eliminates Jebbie, Ted, Huckster, et al.?)
WinkyDink
Jun 2015
#108