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Below are the summary results of our VoteMatch 20-question political quiz,
with analysis of the responses in terms of Donald Trump's & Hillary Clinton's stances from
the 2016 elections. This data summarizes about 1,580 VoteMatch quiz responses in the
period 2013 through 2018. Click on the links below for excerpts
on each topic, or click for a summary of
Hillary Clinton's VoteMatch answers and office2021软件安装教程破解版 - 简书:2021-7-8 · 02 打开解压之后的文件夹，点击Office2021(64位）文件夹，鼠标右击setup，选择众管理员的身份运行, with headlines evidencing how we concluded
their answer to each question. Click on the "analysis" link to see background
and details about the question.
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Abortion is a Woman's Unrestricted Right   |
Strongly Support
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| Analysis: 51%
agree with Clinton's pro-choice
stance, and only 36% with
Trump’s pro-life stance. This issue has the fewest people answering "no
opinion" of any VoteMatch issue (only 13%), which reflects the fact that it is
overwhelmingly the issue with the most voter interest (as indicated by our
viewership statistics consistently since 1999). Compared to 2008, the 2012 response set has become more polarized (both "strong" answers increased in percentage)
and more shifted towards "support". Accordingly, after the 2012 election, we "strengthened" the question text by adding the term "unrestricted" -- which reduced the number of "support" answers from 65% in 2012 to 51% in 2016. Click for all candidates' headlines on
abortion or for background
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| Analysis: Clinton
supports
Affirmative Action on the basis of past discrimination; Trump opposes
Affirmative Access. Note that
our question specifies REQUIREMENT: 50% support that, and 30% oppose. We added the term "LEGALLY" after the 2012 election to attempt to skew more towards "oppose" (our goal is 50/50 support/oppose). In 2012, without the term "LEGALLY", 51% supported, and 33% opposed. (This
changed from 39% in 2008 and 35% support in 2004, the largest shift for
any question which had identical wording then). Click for all candidates'
headlines on Jobs or for
background information.
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Comfortable with same-sex marriage   |
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| Analysis: Hillary Clinton has
evolved over time to become "comfortable" with same-sex marriage (strong support now; opposed in the 1990s);
Donald Trump has more consistently supported LGBT rights, but "support" instead of "strong support", and hence never "evolved." The "strongly support" bar has the highest response of any
quiz question (35% strongly support; that bar grew in 2004, 2008, and 2012) -- indicating that America has "evolved" on same-sex marriage along with Hillary. We strengthened the wording in 2008
(to include "benefits" instead of just "rights") and we strengthened it further after 2012 (to include "marriage" instead of just "benefits"). Despite those strengthened wordings, the "strongly support" ratio rose each election cycle.
Click for all candidates' headlines on
Families & Children or for
background information.
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Keep God in the public sphere   |
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| Analysis: 51% support (agreeing with Republicans); 28% oppose (agreeing with Democrats): It's
difficult to decode Clinton's stances on religious issues, because she's a member of the "religious left," a group that no longer exists in American polity.
Trump is less personally religious than Clinton, but accepts the support of the "religious right" (which very much exists in America today).
Under this topic, Trump mostly talks about issues of
"political incorrectness" like saying "Merry Xmas". Hillary makes no attempt to reinstate
the religious left, and instead focuses on church-vs-state issues. Click for all candidates'
headlines on Principles and Values.
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Fight EPA regulatory over-reach   |
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| Analysis: This is a new question for the 2016 election cycle.
Donald Trump's desire to reduce regulations is backed up by 53% of viewers. Hillary Clinton's
desire to protect the environment via federal action is backed by 27% of viewers
Click for all candidates' headlines on Environment
or for 花猫破解版.
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Make voter registration easier   |
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| Analysis: 50%
favor, and only 26% oppose, voting reform. This indicates a public reaction against "voter suppression" and gerrymandering, and perhaps for campaign finance reform.
(We refocused this question away from "Campaign Finance Reform" after the 2012 election and the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision
which removed many restrictions on campaign spending.) Viewers' responses favors Clinton's
stance for more open voting compared to Trump’s
stance for more "voter security". Click for all candidates' headlines on
Voting Reform, or for
background information.
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Stricter punishment reduces crime   |
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| Analysis: Trump
supports mandatory sentencing, which matches voter preference: 52% to 29%
opposed. Clinton prefers
prevention and rehabilitation Support for mandatory sentencing, the death penalty, and "Three Strikes" (our previous question wordings) have increased since
2008 but stayed constant after 2012. The "Black Lives Matter" movement, which arose in the run-up to the 2016 election, might be credited with slowing support for this topic. Click for all
candidates' headlines on Crime or for
background information.
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Absolute Right To Gun Ownership   |
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| Analysis: The
Gun Control issue is second in the Big Issues in terms of viewer
interest, behind Abortion -- all other issues are
very distantly behind. Voters support Trump on the issue: 42% agree with
Trump’s pro-gun rights stance, while 33% agree with
Clinton's pro-registration stance. HOWEVER, support has been weakening: in the 2012 election cycle, we registered 55% support to 37% oppose --perhaps due to the focus on mass shootings since then.
This question exemplifies the "yes-bias": people prefer answering "yes" to any question; if we correct for that bias, this question is now opposed by the majority (but was not in 2012 or earlier). Our wording on this question has never changed, since 1999 -- but America's view is evolving.
Click for all candidates' headlines on 花猫破解版 or for background
information.
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Expand ObamaCare   |
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| Analysis: This
topic is a leader in lopsided support: 56% in favor, versus only 24% opposing (slightly less favorable than 2012 and even less than in 2008).
We've changed the wording of this question from generic "health coverage" to "ObamaCare" for 2016, but the support ratio has remained steady.
Accordingly, Trump (and many Repblicans) have been promoting various spending programs that
mimic aspects of ObamaCare without calling it ObamaCare (a term repugnant to Trump). But federal health care is generally seen as a
Democratic issue, favoring Clinton's fervent stance of
incrementally reaching universal coverage. Click for all candidates'
headlines on Health Care or for
background information.
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Vouchers for school choice   |
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| Analysis: 27%
agree with Clinton's stance favoring
public school choice and Common Core, and 47% agree with Trump’s stance to
fund vouchers for private schools. Education is primarily a non-federal
issue, with 93% of funding and most decisions occuring at the state and local
levels. But education is solidly third in voter interest (behind abortion and
guns, as measured by our viewership statistics), so the candidates are obligated to make their views known
despite the limited power of the presidency on this issue. Click for all
candidates' headlines on 花猫破解版 or for
background information.
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Prioritize green energy   |
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| Analysis: This
topic offers another of the most lopsided responses: 56% in favor, versus only 22% opposing. The candidates sharply
differ; This is a particularly sharp difference because the question is worded
in stronger terms than on our 2012 quiz (73% support to 14% oppose "Replace coal and oil with alternatives") which was in turn stronger than in our 2008 quiz.
The majority agree with Clinton's stance that
global warming is a serious threat, vs. Trump’s stance
questioning climate change. Most notably, this question had the lowest "strongly oppose" of any question (only 7%) -- reflecting that everyone CLAIMS to support green energy.
We call the catch-phrase "allof-the-above energy" the Big Lie of 2016 because it really means "drill for oil and gas." Click for all candidates' headlines on
Energy or for background
on Environment or
background on Energy issues.
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Marijuana is a gateway drug   |
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| Analysis: 53%
support the Drug War, while 28% oppose it. This has not been much of a campaign
issue but Trump & Clinton disagree: Clinton would
treat drugs with treatment, while Trump would implement 花猫破解版. Perhaps America has evolved due to marijuana legalization efforts, but Trump has evolved in the opposite direction: favoring decriminalization in the 1990s but taking a harder line as a candidate. Click for all candidates' headlines on
Drugs or for background
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Stimulus better than market-led recovery   |
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| Analysis: This is a new question for 2016; it is a defining difference between Republicans and Democrats during and after President Obama's "stimulus package" of corporate bailouts and jobs packages.
51% of viewers agree with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
on supporting the federal stimulus; 21% of viewers agree with the Republicans and Donald Trump
opposing the federal stimulus. Republicans recognize that viewers did support a federal response to the "Great Recession", so they pivot to their own definition of "stimulus": cutting taxes (question below) and reducing regulations (question a few above). Click for all candidates' headlines on
Budget and Economy or for
background information.
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Higher taxes on the wealthy   |
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| Analysis: 28% agree with Hillary Clinton that the
the wealthy should pay a greater share; 51% agree with Trump on
cutting taxes on the wealthy. This is an enormous shift from before the 2016 election cycle, when our question was worded "Make taxes more progressive":
53% agreed with a more progressive tax structure and only 32% opposed. This is the largest shift of any question on our quiz; we attribute it to (1) the harsher wording ("progressive" sounds nice; "tax the wealthy" does not); and (2) Republican success at convincing the public that cutting taxes will create jobs and economic growth. Click for all candidates' headlines
on Tax Reform or for
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Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens   |
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| Analysis: Our viewers are evenly split on immigration: 39% support a pathway to citizenship and 39% oppose.
This question has been evenly split for many years, but in 2016 the "neutral" answer was 22%; in 2012 it was 8%; and in 2008 it was 21%. In other words, Americans decided their immigration stance in the 2012 election, but become undecided again by 2016.
Keep in mind that for all questions the bias is towards answering "yes", so an even split means, in general, that opposition is stronger than support -- and Donald Trump capitalized on that. Trump calls
for tougher enforcement
and a borer wall; Clinton calls for
earned citizenship plus comprehensive reforms. Click for all candidates'
headlines on Immigration or for
background information.
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Privatize Social Security   |
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| Analysis: Only
18% agree with Clinton's stance to keep Social Security
within the federal government, while 58% agree with Trump’s stance of
privatization (the highest support score of any question). Support of privatization stood at 45%-36% in 2012, down from its 2004 score of 56%-29%. Social Security until recently was called the
"Third Rail" of politics -- touch it and you die -- but clearly the voters are
ready for a change. This question is perhaps the most skewed by our
demographics -- our respondents are all Internet users, and hence are younger
and more affluent than the general population. Click for all candidates'
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Support and Expand Free Trade   |
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| Analysis: Free trade has a consensus in favor:
47% to only 29% opposed. Trump & Clinton agree in restricting free trade
but for different reasons, with Trump focusing on
nationalist & protectionist grounds, and Clinton insisting
on labor and
environmental standards in free trade agreements. Click for all candidates' headlines on
Free Trade or for background
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| 花猫破解版 This question yielded an even split among viewers, 35% support to 35% oppose.
Historically, this question has been roughly evenly split: 42%-45% in the 2012 cycle; 54%-29% in 2008.
Trump focuses on a general
military buildup and a strong foreign policy. Hillary Clinton echoes the even split of our viewership, focusing on
veteran's benefits but switching funds from military to diplomacy. The third-party candidates all point out the folly of supporting the
military-industrial complex, but they have no support from the two major parties.
for all candidates' headlines on Homeland Security in general,
or for background
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Support American Exceptionalism   |
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| Analysis: This is a new question for the 2016 election cycle; 35%
support "American exceptionalism" while 33% oppose. But "No Opinion" is the single most frequent response, at 31%.
That indicates that the population is unclear on the meaning of "American exceptionalism" -- because Republicans and Democrats mean very different things by it.
Clinton supports
multilateralism, internationalism, and accepting refugees. Trump supports
unilateralism, nationalism, and barring refugees. Click for all candidates' headlines on
Foreign Policy or for background
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Avoid foreign entanglements   |
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| Analysis: 43% support exiting wars abroad; 27% oppose exiting.
This is a big drop from the 2012 election cycle (where our wording was more specific, "US out of Iraq & Afghanistan") where 68% favored ending our ongoing wars and 15% opposed doing so.
The new wording (which quotes President George Washington) ignores specific wars, rather than focusing on North Korea or Syria or Iran -- but the vague wording garners less support.
Both Clinton and Trump disagree with the mahjoroty, but for different reasons. Clinton would
intervene militarily in Syria, while Trump would
militarily enforce denuclearization in North Korea and in Iran. Click for all candidates' headlines on
War + Peace or for
background information.
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