vily into how I view politics, I tend to focus on the single issues at hand and not on which party is proposing them. I feel strongly on many issues, abortion, education, foreign/domestic policy, welfare and most recently civil unions, however I try to understand both sides, not agree but understand. I do think that I could be far more educated in the realm of politics, but I think that I am off to a good start, and can hold my own in conversations concerning many of the issues that are currently in the limelight.

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I think that my own political views were formed much the way everyone else's were. My parents taught me about the differences between democrats and republicans, what the president does and even about the legislative

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