Anna Said:

I am political party illiterate. What are typical republican views and typical democratic views?

We Answered:

This is an unbiased site with a good quiz that will tell you which party your views match best. I strongly suggest that you click on each question to clarify it before answering.
http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch/Pres20…

This site has the voting records of candidates at the national as well as the state level. It is unbiased. You can look up how these candidates voted to see if you agree.
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

Kristen Said:

What are the republican/democratic views on the Iraq war?

We Answered:

Republicans want to continue with the war until we accomplish what we came there to do. Democrats want to pull out. Alexander Hamilton would be considered today a REPUBLICAN. Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party which is today the Democratic Party. So, Hamilton would stay in the war, and Jefferson would want to pull out.

Hilda Said:

What are the Republican and Democratic views on Health Care Reform?

We Answered:

Republicans: Healthcare should be a for-profit industry rationed by price to the wealthiest. The sick should pay for their misfortune (deserved or not), and the healthy and wealthy should not be burdened. The best way to lower healthcare costs is to give everyone a plan with very little coverage so that if they get sick they need to pinch pennies as best they can and negotiate price directly with their doctors and hospitals before they get the operation.

Democrats: The system is not working the way it is now, private industry is degrading our quality and raising our costs. We need to create an option for those who are not happy with the private insurance market. They could buy into a non-profit government plan similar to medicare, except you would pay into it each month.

Veronica Said:

What are the democratic and republican views on solar energy?

We Answered:

In reality - Solar Farms are not practical or cost effective - YET!
They need to be subsidized by government. Solar panels only have a 10-20 year life.
When solar panels go below the 8 cent per watt cost - then they will be more cost effective.

Some Democrats don't want their development or wind Farms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/busine…
"AMBOY, Calif. — Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big solar plants and wind farms planned for the region." - - Plus the Kennedy's stopped a wind farm in Massachusetts.

Dianne Said:

How did Federalist and Democratic-Republican Views differ?

We Answered:

Do you go to CHS?

Sara Said:

When did the Republican views and Democratic views swap?

We Answered:

Three events mostly.

First, Reconstruction. The 1876 election was very close and disputed. In the compromise of 1877, the Republicans sold out the Blacks so they could become president, and the Democrats, the party of slavery, got the Union troops to head back North. The result was terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, operating without any Democrat governor or politicans trying to stop them, while they looked the other way.

Second, FDR during the New Deal, made extensive efforts to reach out to minorities, and much of his party continued to so, including subsequent Democratic Presidents, like Truman (desegregated the Military) JFK and LBJ (wrote and signed the Voting Rights Act, and Civil Rights Act, etc).

There were attempts to sway the party back to the South and largely to racists, Strom Thurman being one of them with his run as a Dixiecrat against Truman, and lastly, leading us to the third and most definitive moment, George Wallace's attempt to run for President (as a third party candidate, splitting the Democrat vote in the South).

After his losses, the Party moved away from the "racist" side of the issue over time, although some Southern Democrats are still carry overs from the "racist" times. But after Wallace, the Republicans moved in to take those voters over, beginning with Richard Nixon, but really most notably Ronald Reagan.

Bobby Said:

Republican views vs democratic views on current issues?

We Answered:

Seems to me here the Libs rule on answers .. Libs sorry you cannot put lipstick on a pig and call it anything other than a pig and your agenda and policies sure look and sound like pigs to me .. You may have good intentions but what you are going to get out if may not be what you think you will get so save that warm fuzzy feeling you get when oblahma speaks for a more deserving cause