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Illegal Immigration and Waterboarding Top Select2008.com’s Homeland Security Issues for the 2008 Primaries

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Illegal Immigration and waterboarding top voters’ agenda on Homeland Security for the 2008 primaries. The following top-five-issue sample is based on over 250,000 votes over the last week:

- Support a legalization plan for illegal immigrants – 47% agree and 46% disagree

- Commit to build the already approved 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border – 45% agree and 46% disagree

- Stop granting U.S. citizenship to babies born in the U.S. from illegal immigrants – 49% agree and 43% disagree

- Support the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, like waterboarding, in the war on terrorism – 44% agree and 43% disagree

- Cut highway funds for States that issue driving licenses to undocumented immigrants - 45% agree and 43% disagree

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Top Five Domestic Issues on which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Disagree

Monday, January 28th, 2008

With the Super-Tuesday primaries contest only a week away, there are more than differences of leadership style and personality between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The top Democratic candidates to the presidential nomination have actual disagreements on five key domestic issues:

- Universal healthcare: universal coverage for all Americans, mandatory coverage for all Americans, drugs reimportation, means-tested tax credits for healthcare insurance, health insurance for small business employees, access to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program;

- Immigration: support for driving licenses for undocumented immigrants, scope of earned legalization program;

- Home ownership: remedies to the subprimes crisis;

- Retirement: Raising or eliminating the cap on Social Security taxable income to prevent benefit cuts for future retirees, levying Social Security taxes on income revenues higher than $200,000/year;

- Government accountability and transparency: accepting or refusing lobby money to fund his or her campaign.