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As for gay unions meaning "little if your country is going plantation third world fascist faster than Jimmy can crack corn," I would like to point out that you can brush off everything this way. How does not letting non-Americans have decent jobs help American gays if they don't have equal opprtunity or if they can't marry/enter into a civil union with their partners? And so on.
Anyway, my issues:
1. Separation of church and state, the issue on which the two largest parties are the Republicrats and the Greens.
2. Privacy, including gutting the anti-privacy, anti-free speech, etc. parts of the Fascist Act.
3. Keeping a volunteer army, i.e. not forcing me to go to Canada.
4. Opposition to wars, and particularly needless wars such as the war on Iraq - "a war of choice," to quote Thomas Friedman.
5. Giving non-Americans equal access to jobs, aka free trade.
6. Education, including banning creationism from schools until creationists start behaving like scientists and not like cranks (i.e. until hell that doesn't exist freezes over).
7. Abolishing the death penalty.
8. Choice.
9. The environment (including alternative energy research), mainly because environmental destruction is something nobody can hide from.
10. Health care, because no minimum wage will save you if you're dead because the surgery that'll save your life costs what you make in a year.
These are my top ten. Dean tops issues 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10; Kucinich tops 2, 4, and 7; and both Dean and Kucinich are equaly good on 3. The margin between the two is large on issues 1, 4, and 5; medium on 7 and 8; and small on 2, 9, and 10. If issue number N gets 11-N points (e.g. abolishing the death penalty is #7 and is thus worth 4 points), and each candidate gets 3 times the number of points for a large margin, twice for a medium one, and the actual number for a small one, then Dean has 10*3+6*3+8*2+9+10=83 points and Kucinich has 4*3+7*2+2=27 points.
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