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and global issues. For example, my politics class was a 10-question survey that addressed
various national issues.
There was a near unanimous class vote in favor of citizens right to keep and bear
arms, as well as disapproval of the NSAs surveillance of American citizens. There were
a couple issues that had results with a 2:3 ratio, such as favors for physician-assisted
suicide for terminally ill patients if the patient chooses it, same sex marriages to be
recognized by states and federal government, and universal health care for all citizens.
Issues such as promoting additional tax cuts to stimulate the economy, a more restrictive
immigration policy, and the United States having a stronger military stance towards other
countries and terrorists produced results that were very close to half in agreement and
half in disagreement.
Although these were the results for my class, it should be same to assume that
some of the people who provided answers on the survey did not know very much about at
least a couple of the given issues, and therefore just had to give unknowledgeable and
quick responses without giving too much actual thought to the issues themselves.
In terms of liberal and conservative, it would be safe to assume that among my
class, roughly half were liberal and half were conservative, based on the class responses
on the survey. Of the ten asked questions, five had majority answers that favored the
liberal side, as the other five had majority answers that favored the conservative side.
The assumptions made on this paper were simply made by carefully reviewing the
questions and the resulting answers, and is in no way stating that anyone is for certain of
a specific viewpoint. Every person has a different amount of knowledge on any given
topic, and is entitled to have an opinion that noticeably differs from that of anyone else.