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The United States, the world’s leading debtor nation, is now heavily dependent on Chinese capital to underwrite its fast-growing debt. If China ever decides to divert their capital surplus elsewhere, either to internal investment or to the development of oil, gas, and mineral resources elsewhere in the world, the U.S. economy will be in trouble.
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| Yes (32) |  86% | | No (5) |  14% |
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The U.S. government has worked feverishly to address the problem of democracy in Iraq —creating working groups and planning cells, formulating options, and discussing ideas with U.S. allies while pundits and analysts in the media, think tanks, and academia have further identified this issue as a vital one to ensure that peace in Iraq and in the region is secured.
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| Yes (17) | 53% | | No (15) | 47% |
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In Arizona political activist Dr. Mark Osterloh is placing his bets that a proposal to pay one lucky voter $1 million will drive people to the polls. Do you think this kind of incentive scheme is going to work?
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| Yes (16) | 53% | | No (14) | 47% |
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It’s no secret that the cost of running for office is rising. The total price of the 2004 presidential and congressional elections was $4 billion (and perhaps a lot more), up from nearly $3 billion in 2000, $2.2 billion in 1996 and $1.8 billion in 1992.
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| Yes (17) | 63% | | No (10) | 37% |
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If tests like the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Law School Aptitude Test are good enough to predict performance in college and professional schools, a Presidential Aptitude Test could do the same for entry to the White House. The test might even include a section on basic English grammar.
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| Yes (36) | 51% | | No (35) | 49% |
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Instead of vetoing legislation President Bush has been issuing signing statements after signing major legislation. The signing statement is an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law.
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| Yes (29) | 67% | | No (14) | 33% |
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The Greens/Green Party USA has been working since 1984 to make the hope of a more democratic, safer, cleaner world real. Our political goal is an America where decisions are made by the people and not by a few giant corporations. Our environmental goal is a sustainable world where nature and human society co-exist in harmony.
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| Yes (10) | 27% | | No (27) | 73% |
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Seems like Fox and the Republican Party are closer than ever. Fox is now the preferred network at the White House. Requests to show other networks on the White House TVs have been denied.
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| Yes (27) | 59% | | No (19) | 41% |
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A preferential voting system is an electoral system in which voters rank a list of candidates in order of preference. In 2000 someone could have voted for Nader as their first choice and then had their second choice vote actually count for Gore. This system of voting allows third party candidates to gather support while not taking votes away from the top two candidates.
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| Yes (30) | 71% | | No (12) | 29% |
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The nation's forefathers envisioned a president born in the good ol' U.S. of A.; a red, white and true-blue chief executive for when the band strikes up "Hail to the Chief."
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| Yes (13) | 23% | | No (44) | 77% |
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