When looking at political candidates, I tend to look at the candidate's stances on several issues, rather than just one.

Every day I see cars with "I'm Pro-Choice/Pro-Life and I Vote" bumper stickers. In my mind, one-issue voters are worse than the people who don't vote at all. Rather than listen to everything the candidate says he or she will do, they will only vote based off of one thing. One thing.

I've actually seen a car sporting an "I Support The Wetlands and I Vote" bumper sticker.

All of the federal-level politicians have more important things to work on that they actually can effect: the economy, foreign relations, providing a sound defense for the nation. Issues such as abortion rights, flag-burning, and gun control are things plebians think are the most important issues in elections. None of those three things, favored towards one camp's position, would have the ability to collapse a nation.

> Do you feel that if a candidate is oppossed to your position, he would be oppossed to your general political philosophy?

When you get to the federal-level, here in the US we only have two viable political parties to choose from. If we had more parties, we wouldn't have to pick from just Column A (Legal Abortion, Buckets of Money and Cheese For The Poor, No Guns For Anyone, Clean Water, and a Military Force consisting of a Stop Sign) or Column B (Anti-Abortionists, The Government Rounds Up Poor People and Shoots Them, Free Guns For Everyone, Glow-In-The-Dark Water, and All The Missles You Can Launch.)

Most other democratic republics have five or six political parties. From conversations with people who voted for the Reform/United We Stand party in years previous and the Green Party in the last Presidential Election, voters weren't necessarily voting for *those* parties. They were voting for future elections, so that in the next federal election, there would be matching funds for a viable third party to wage an effective campaign. In the end, that would have allowed for more choices for the voter. In the end, that would have had the "I vote Pro-Choice/Life only" people being forced to look beyond the one issue.

-Faux "I'm not sure if I've said exactly what I wanted to say there, but I think it's close enough." Pas