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2024 Presidential Candidate Selector
SelectSmart.comYou may select a position for every issue, or just select issues important to you. The positions of these candidates are based upon their voting records, special interest group ratings and their statements in the public record. In cases where there is no known public record or statement, these candidates are not rated on that issue. We update candidate views and include new issues as they become known or change.


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1. What would be your ideal candidate's position on VOTING ISSUES?
Side with those who say voter fraud is a serious election problem. Laws that restrict voting access are a good solution.
Side with those who say voter suppression is a serious election problem. Laws that expand voting access are a good solution.
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2. What would be your ideal candidate's position on GUN ISSUES?
Side with those who support gun control legislation recommended by groups such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Side with those who oppose gun control legislation, agreeing with groups such as the NRA and the Gun Owners of America.
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3. What would be your ideal candidate's position on IMMIGRATION ISSUES?
My ideal candidate would side with those who want American citizens to be protected from immigration.
My ideal candidate would side with those who would generally welcome immigration.
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4. What would be your ideal candidate's position on the ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY RIGHTS ISSUES when they conflict?
Side with those who favor positions of environmental groups such as the League of Conservation Voters. LCV's top priority is to address climate change.
Side with those who support positions of property rights advocating groups like the American Land Rights Association, which has an often contentious relationship the Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management.
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5. What would be your ideal candidate's position on EMPLOYMENT ISSUES?
Side with those who want government to improve the situation for American workers. Areas of improvement include raising the minimum wage and fulfilling the goals of labor unions such as the AFL-CIO and Afscme.
Side with those who say that the best thing government can do for workers is to butt out. That includes allowing the free market to determine wages and giving workers the right to not join unions.
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6. Would be your ideal candidate's AGE BE AN ISSUE?
My ideal candidate would be younger than 70 years old.
My ideal candidate would be older than 70 years old.
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7. What would be your ideal candidate's position on INTERNATIONAL & SECURITY ISSUES?
My ideal candidate would generally support an isolationist point of view avoiding involvement in foreign conflicts.
My ideal candidate would generally support the view that protecting foreign democracies is in America's best interest.
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8. What would be your ideal candidate's position on the WAR IN UKRAINE?
American needs to focus on domestic concerns. Ukraine is important, but it can't be a blank check.
Impose sanctions on Russia. Send Ukraine humanitarian aid and weaponry.
Under no circumstances should we enter into another war that would cost thousands of American lives.
The leaders of the United States, NATO and Russia should immediately initiate diplomatic talks together with Ukrainian leadership to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.
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9. What would be your ideal candidate's position on the ISRAEL VS. HAMAS WAR?
Would advocate the military defeat of Hamas and the return of hostages to Israel while striving to minimize civilian casualties
Would advocate an immediate ceasefire on the Gaza Strip to end civilian deaths and misery.
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10. What would be your ideal candidate's position on RETIREMENT ISSUES?
Side with those who want to preserve the basic Social Security program as set up by FDR, but possibly make changes such as raising the earnings ceiling and/or the retirement age, etc.
Side with those who want to consider other options to Social Security, including privatization and allowing people to invest their own retirement funds.
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11. What would be your ideal candidate's position on BUDGET & TAX ISSUES?
Side with those who say government has a responsibility to address economic and social problems. That means investing in programs that benefit the people.
Side with those who say that the best government is limited government. The Cato Institute and other libertarians have the right idea: Less taxation means more money in the pockets of the people so they can solve their own problems.
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12. What would be your ideal candidate's position on CRIME & PUNISHMENT ISSUES?
Side with those who oppose prison privatization. Private prisons, also known as for-profit prisons, are run by corporations that have contracts with governments.
Side with those who oppose capital punishment.
Side with those who favor the goals of the National Association of Police Organizations whose issues of importance include increased mental health access for offenders, training for officers who encounter mentally ill offenders, law enforcement access to military surplus equipment, gang deterrence and prevention programs
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13. What would be your ideal candidate's position on HEALTH CARE?
Side with those who would favor keeping the Affordable Care Act but would favor adjusting and improving the ACA.
Side with those who would repeal & replace Obamacare. There are too many problems with it to fix it. Would also oppose any other government run health care programs.
Side with those who would favor Medicare-for-all with which every American is covered by the same, single health plan.
Side with those who would favor Medicare public option, the general proposal that anyone has the option to get healthcare through Medicare.
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14. What would be your ideal candidate's position on ABORTION ISSUES?
Side with those who support the pro-life positions of organizations such as National Right to Life Committee.
Side with those who support the pro-choice positions of organizations such as NARAL Pro Choice USA.
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15. What would be your ideal candidate's position on RELIGIOUS & SOCIAL ISSUES?
Side with those who favor the agenda of the Christian Coalition, whose agenda includes ending human embryonic stem cell research, defunding planned parenthood and defending traditional marriage.
Side with those who take a more secular approach to governing which would respect the separation of church and state. They would accept differing religious and non-religious perspectives and of new norms including same-sex marriage.
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16. What would be your ideal candidate's position on MARIJUANA laws?
Side with those who favor the legalization of marijuana for recreational and/or medical use.
Side with those who oppose any legalization of marijuana.
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17. What would be your ideal candidate's position on POVERTY & HOMELESSNESS ISSUES?
Side with those who say it is the primarily the role and responsibility of government to solve the problems of poverty and homelessness.
Side with those who say in solving the problems of the poor and homeless, government should take a backseat to private and faith-based charities.
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