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[Motown_Johnny]

1. .

1) Foreign Policy (as in no more wars)
2) Economic Equality (minimum wage increase, fair tax policies and Wall Street reform)
3) Judicial Reform (Police violence, for profit prisons, mandatory sentencing etc.)


Strong Bernie Supporter

Michigan (edit to add: I have also lived in Colorado, Ohio and New York)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Done

Immigration reform
Minority rights and protection
Access to medical care, regardless of ability to pay

Clinton

California by way of Florida and New York

[HDSam]

3. My three:

1. Campaign finance reform
Support for/expansion of Veteran's programs
Wall Street regulation

2. Bernie Sanders

3. Nevada

[rickford66]

4. OK

1. Money on politics
2. Income inequality
3. Climate change/environment issues

Bernie

New York

[Autumn]

5. Okay

1) No more wars
2) Economic equality
3) Health Care reform

Bernie 2016 Because Fuck this Shit

Colorado

[dsc]

6. ok

1 Minority rights
2 Education
3 Health care

Clinton NC originally from OH.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

7. Good thread

1) NO MORE WARS (currently, get out of middle east).
campaign finance reform (so we can get the other things we want - like healthcare)
term limits (so we can get the other things we want - like healthcare)

2) Bernie

3 Texas

[AgingAmerican]

8. Here goes

Climate change
Re-regulation (including citizens united)
Social justice, especially voting/civil rights

Washington state

[randome]

9. Explain what? Your username says it all.

This is an exercise in futility since Clinton has the numbers to win. The only thing we should be asking ourselves is how to push her further to the left and on what issues.

If we expect Sanders or Clinton or anyone else to simply 'get things done', that shows a lack of understanding of how Congress works.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[reformist2]

11. No Democrat should ever say such a thing before the votes are actually cast and counted.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. Can't you just play along? What harm could it possibly do?

Your post makes Clinton supporters look bad. Please edit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. I am htrib ecnis tracomed

[Autumn]

15. I'm done pushing anybody to the left. If they aren't already on the left I have no use for them

[katsy]

10. State: Connecticut

Economic equality

Single payer healthcare

Campaign finance reform


Bernie Sanders supporter

[MineralMan]

12. OK, I'll bite.

1. Winning the Presidency in 2016
2. Regaining a Democratic majority in the Senate.
3. Defeating Republican candidates for as many offices a possible.

I support Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

I live in Minnesota.

[PyaarRevolution]

41. Ummm.

Wouldn't those not necessarily be issues but the steps one needs to take to see those issues addressed?

[MineralMan]

44. They are definitely election issues.

Before anything can happen, someone must be elected. That makes getting a Democrat elected as President, electing a majority in the Senate and other things are probably the most important issues in this election cycle.

Specific proposals or policies from individual candidates are all dependent on the results of the election. So, if not elected, no candidate can do anything at all.

Therefore, I put getting Democrats elected to office at the top of my issues list. For me, in every election, that is the main issue, actually.

When Democrats hold office and majorities in legislatures, progressive goals are either met or advanced. When Republicans hold those offices, they are not. It could not be simpler.

[Motown_Johnny]

47. Sorry but those are not issues, they are goals.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/issue

^snip^

issue
[ish-oo or, esp. British, is-yoo]
Spell Syllables
Synonyms Examples Word Origin
noun
1. the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution:
the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
2. something that is printed or published and distributed, especially a given number of a periodical:
Have you seen the latest issue of the magazine?
3. something that is sent out or put forth in any form.
4. a quantity of something that is officially offered for sale or put into circulation at one time:
a new issue of commemorative stamps; a new bond issue.
5. a point in question or a matter that is in dispute, as between contending parties in an action at law.
6. a point, matter, or dispute, the decision of which is of special or public importance: the political issues.
7. a point, the decision of which determines a matter:
The real issue in the strike was the right to bargain collectively.






Your mistakenly thinking that increasing the authority to affect issues is in itself an issue is very telling. No wonder you support Hillary.

[MineralMan]

48. OK. If those 'goals' aren't met,

none of the issues matter. That makes those goals my main election issues.

[Motown_Johnny]

50. You can't just change the definition of words.

Read every other response to this thread. We all want Democrats elected, yet none of us list it as an issue (other than yourself). Everyone else listed actual issues.

[JonLeibowitz]

45. Those are the signposts that indicate one is on the way to camp weathervane.

One cannot state actual issues because the Hill is likely to switch positions. The whiplash is confusing so it is better to stick to feel-good nonsense like "beat Republicans".

[NorthCarolina]

16. Here's mine

1. Income inequality
2. Healthcare for all
3. Climate change

Candidate: Bernie Sanders

State: North Carolina

[GeorgeGist]

17. Done.

[Motown_Johnny]

21. ?

[demwing]

30. He typed in invisible ink

[flor-de-jasmim]

18. Here goes:

1) Financial reform and legislation (campaign, Wall Street, privatization of public services)
2) Creation of infrastructure projects (and jobs)
3) Reform of the "institutions of the young" (schools, prisons)

Bernie Sanders

Living abroad - last U.S. state of residence Georgia

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. I'll bite

It is really hard for me to choose my top three.

Military reform - no more wars, dramatic reduction of the MIC, taking care of our veterans.

Income inequality - Raise the minimum wage, jobs through infrastructure spending, tax reform including removal of the SS cap.

Climate change - Dramatic increase in conservation and the use of renewable energy. No new coal fired power plants of any kind (no such thing as clean coal). Increase CAFE fuel requirements and have them for ALL classes of vehicles.

Sanders

Texas

[99Forever]

20. Okay, easy peasy.

1. Public funding of ALL political campaigns. NO private money.

2. Stay the fuck out of other nations' business unless they are a DIRECT threat to us. Cut the military budget in 1/2 to start with.

3. Universal health care for every person in this nation.


Bernie Sanders

Minnesota

[shadowmayor]

58. Me too

1. Campaign reform as in public funding. It all begins with this in our country
2. Bring our troops home and quit killing people in other countries. Or who would Jesus Bomb?
3. Health Care - #1 reason why Americans go broke is due to illness in their family

Bernie Sanders

Texas

[LWolf]

22. I'll try, but

apparently I don't operate like the majority of humanity. I don't rank things that are important to me. If they are important, they are important, and I don't put them in any kind of order. So what I throw out there as top 3 aren't really top 3, but the first that popped into my brain, and if you asked me again an hour from now you might get a different top 3. That said:

1. The extinction of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism.

100% public financing of all campaigns.

A strong network of public services, funded and administered publicly and free at the point of service: universal health care, education pre-school through trade school or university, protected and expanded social security, utilities, roads, libraries, etc., etc., etc..


2. Sanders


3. Oregon

[enid602]

23. Clinton

1. Income inequality/family issues/job growth.

2. Fiscal constraint/inflation and debt management

3. Electability in the GE.

Clinton

[mythology]

24. I'll bite

Income inequality
Gun control
Social Justice - both minority and women's rights

I have no preferred candidate as I like all three just fine and don't see enough difference between them overall to be drawn to just one of them.

Massachusetts

[lumberjack_jeff]

25. 3) Washington 2) Sanders

Wealth inequality
Expand Social security
Public interest banking

[Autumn Colors]

26. Here you go

1) Economic (in)equality
2) Universal Healthcare
3) Environment/climate

Strong Bernie Sanders supporter.

Connecticut -- grew up in New York State but have also lived in New Jersey, Ohio, Colorado, Utah, and California. Have lived outside the USA as well (France for 5 months, Iran for 3 months).

[NV Whino]

27. Okay

1. Income equality
2. National health care, which includes optical, dental and mental
3. Defeat Citizens United

Bernie

California

[Punkingal]

28. OK

1) Income equality

2) Environment

3) No more endless war

Bernie

Minnesota

[demwing]

29. Here you go...

ISSUES (in no special order)
1. Protecting Democracy (campaign finance reform, election reform, voting rights, etc.)
2. Protecting the People (racial justice, peace, demilitarization of the police, economic justice, etc.)
3. Protecting the Planet

CANDIDATE
Bernie Sanders

STATE
Florida (but willing to move if that helps!)

[1StrongBlackMan]

31. Done ...

Social Justice
Solid safety net
Education

O'Mallet

Arizona (by way of Ohio, but will never return to live)

[Bleacher Creature]

32. Okay

Climate Change (it kind of makes every other issue moot if the effects are as disruptive as some are predicting)

Income inequality

Health care - both universal access and R&D

I support the candidate who I believe has a better chance of getting something accomplished. That means winning in November, helping to elect Democratic majorities in Congress, and building legislative coalitions within the Democratic Party. Right now, that candidate is Clinton. And it's not remotely close.

Maryland

[brush]

33. Okay, here's mine.

1. Stop our growing police state by ending police brutality towards POCs and people in general

2. A tie between no more continuous war/equal opportunity for POCs/immigration reform

3. Moving the first-step ACA towards single-payer healthcare

Will vote for Sanders but have no issue at all with voting for Clinton if she wins the nomination as she is head and shoulders over any in the repug clown car.

Nevada by way of New York.

Good post, btw. Most of the responses are quite similar so I don't get the Sanders/Clinton war swirling on DU.

[Peregrine Took]

34. Universal health care, environment/animal rights, jobs

Bernie

Illinois

[fredamae]

35. Ok

Tackle Government (at ALL levels) Corruption
Justice/Civil Rights/Prison Reform
Economic Inequality

It's hard to pick just three as "top"....they're All urgent at this juncture.

Bernie

Oregon

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. Mine:

1. Climate change, economic equality, racial justice
2. Sanders
3. Minnesota

[Festivito]

37. My SB responses

1. Election reform
2. Reform justice system
3. Fiscal transparency
4. Don Siegleman exoneration -- oops, that's 4

1. Sanders then 2. Clinton

MICHIGAN!

[PyaarRevolution]

39. Four is proof that....

Sanders could win Alabama in the general election I think. I mean he was the Democratic governor of Alabama that Rove got thrown in prison on some nonsense.

[PyaarRevolution]

38. Nuff said.

1.Free College
2.Repeal of Citizens United.
3.Repeal of TPP replaced with a Pro-workers Fair Trade agreement.

Bernie Sanders

Kansas

p.s. I had to put repeal/reform of TPP because a lot of the other issues you care about reforming will see nothing happen if most of TPP is voted for as it shreds our Constitution.

[PowerToThePeople]

40. Top 3

Economic Justice.
Ending US imperialism.
Violence in America.

(Honestly, global climate change should be my #1, may need to rethink my focus)

Bernie Sanders
Washington State

[NCTraveler]

42. .

1) Civil Rights
Shifting economic regulation
Healthcare

2) Clinton

3) FL

[Hoyt]

43. World Peace, European Style Safety Net and Healthcare, Immigration/Social Justice.

I believe Clinton has a much better chance getting us closer.

If I had a 4th, it would be European style gun laws (but, I think that also falls in Social Justice and world peace).

[JonLeibowitz]

46. Good idea, I like noncontroversial discussions

1) campaign finance reform, foreign policy, aggressive regulation of financial sectors/corporate legislation

2) Bernie Sanders

3) California, by way of New Jersey, hoping to end up in NH.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

49. The great state of Michigan.

1. Environment. We need to come up with a plan to survive on this crumbling planet.
2. Infrastructure. Fix the problems in the country. This will lead to good paying jobs.
3. Reduction of the MIC. Money is needed elsewhere.

Not easy to kiss. What I listed will have a domino effect of many other problems. IMHO.

Bernie Sanders.

[itsrobert]

51. top 3

1. Middle Class Tax Cuts (at least no increase)
2. Senior Care
3. Veterans Benefits

Undecided
California

[Rosa Luxemburg]

52. yes

1. Economic policy
2. Foreign policy
3. Environmental policy - including climate change

[onecaliberal]

53. Bernie

1. End corruption in the United States, from the purchased congress to the
war criminals walking free. Every facet of life in this country is corrupted
by the 1%
2. Single Payer Healthcare
3. Climate Change

It's really difficult to choose only 3. I believe if you take care of #1 it will have a huge effect on a multitude of other things.

Bernie

California

[Delmette]

54. Ok

1. Defense Dept spending
2. Income equality
3. Health care

Bernie Sanders

Montana

[BOSNYCDC]

55. Ok

1. Social justice in all policies, climate change, terrorism (domestic and international)
2. Sanders
3. DC

[Jake Stern]

56. Okay

1. Less reliance on the military as a foreign policy tool.
2. Universal health care.
3. Reigning in Wall Street.

Bernie Sanders

Colorado by way of Maryland, Louisiana and Florida.

[Laffy Kat]

57. Mmmm-k:

1. Defeating Republicans

2. Ending wars

3. Social Inequality

Bernie Sanders