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VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background)	Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation)
Strongly Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's right (-5 points on Social scale)	Pushed the sonogram bill with pro-life advocates: Opposes topic 1 Proud of defunding Planned Parenthood: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Require women seeking abortions to view a sonogram: Strongly Opposes topic 1
No opinion on topic 2: Require hiring more women & minorities (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 3: Same-sex domestic partnership benefits (-5 points on Social scale)	Define marriage as a union between one man and one woman: Strongly Opposes topic 3
Strongly Favors topic 4: Teacher-led prayer in public schools (-5 points on Social scale)	Protect student's right to pray and reflect in schools: Strongly Favors topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 8: Death Penalty (-5 points on Social scale)	Death is appropriate punishment for repeat child molesters: Strongly Favors topic 8
Strongly Favors topic 9: Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws (-5 points on Social scale)	Mandatory 25-year-to-life sentence for first-time child rape: Strongly Favors topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	Strongly supports our constitutional right to bear arms: Strongly Favors topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 5: More federal funding for health coverage (+5 points on Economic scale)	Reduce medical lawsuit abuse clogging our court system: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Replace ObamaCare with free-market healthcare: Strongly Opposes topic 5
Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-3 points on Economic scale)	Opposes cutting payroll taxes as harmful to Social Security: Opposes topic 6
No opinion on topic 7: Parents choose schools via vouchers (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 18: Replace coal & oil with alternatives (+5 points on Economic scale)	Open the Gulf; more hydro-fracking; less "green" energy: Strongly Opposes topic 18
No opinion on topic 19: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
No opinion on topic 20: Allow churches to provide welfare services (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Make taxes more progressive (+5 points on Economic scale)	State income tax would pass over my dead, cold body: Strongly Opposes topic 11 I favor a fairer and flatter tax: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Passed the largest tax cut in Texas history: Strongly Opposes topic 11
Strongly Opposes topic 12: Illegal immigrants earn citizenship (-5 points on Social scale)	Boots on the ground, plus a wall: Strongly Opposes topic 12 No amnesty & no tuition for illegals; go home and re-apply: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Triple the size of the Border Patrol: Strongly Opposes topic 12
Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-3 points on Economic scale)	Cruz defended Chinese on intellectual property theft: Opposes topic 13
Favors topic 15: Expand the armed forces (-3 points on Social scale)	No blanket cuts to military, but trim back some spending: Favors topic 15
No opinion on topic 16: Stricter limits on political campaign funds (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Favors topic 14: The Patriot Act harms civil liberties (+2 points on Social scale)	Limit police power to ask detainees about immigration status: Favors topic 14
Opposes topic 17: US out of Iraq & Afghanistan (-3 points on Social scale)	More combat troops were needed in Iraq, and for longer: Opposes topic 17