Anticipating 2008 Presidential Election

Since the year 2001 the United States has been under the presidency of a republican, George W. Bush. His has a position in a number of issues including abortion, immigration, the Iraqi war, health care, and social security. On the abortion issue he believes that we should ban partial-birth abortion and reduce abortions altogether and he supports adult stem-cell research but not embryonic stem cell research. He believes that the government should have a responsibility over Medicare and Medicaid. On the topic of social security he suggests that younger workers should be able to put part of their payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts. With the war in Iraq, President Bush is guided on the principle of "return on success" and we are "slowly beginning to bring some of our forces home". On immigration he developed a plan to increase the border patrol security.

In the year 2008 the citizens of the American nation will vote for their next president. There are seventeen running candidates for the upcoming election for both the democrat and republican political parties. Eight of whom are democratic. In order of popularity they are: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. And the remaining nine republican candidates in order of popularity are: Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Sam Brownback, and Tom Tancredo. It is still too early to know who exactly is nominated for the election, but the top three candidates from each party have many things to say about health care, the Iraqi war, the economy and budget, the environment, globalization, abortion, immigration, education, and civil ri...

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...r from Arizona and holds the popular vote at 17%. His issues rest on abortion, tax reform, the Iraq war, health care, and immigration. He supports stem cell research, and proposes that we restrict abortions with no partial-birth and no public funding. With the war in Iraq he believes that if we leave Iraq, terrorists will "follow us home", and proposes that we send a heavy wave of troops to Iraq to establish order. On tax reform he knows that the alternative minimum taxes are "eating Americans alive", and is opposed to tax cuts, but thinks that the government must extend them. He says that the immigration reform is needed for national security. On health care he says no to a mandated universal system, and no to a mandated insurance coverage. Also on the social security issue, he says that we can save our benefits by a bipartisan agreement but without new taxes.