We want to hear from you about social issues and how youll vote in november. Whether it be abortion, gay marriage, marijuana, issues that influence the candidate of your choice on election day. And if theyre important to you call us, and let us know. Here is how you can reach out to us. If you want to tell us your social issue, if they may be important to you, its at cspan wj at twitter, facebook. Com cspan is our facebook page. You can email us at journal cspan. Org. The Pew Research Center did a poll of potential voters, asking them to rank their importance of issues when it comes to election day. If you look at the top three, its the economy, its health care, and issues of terrorism is how they ranked those type of issues. If you go to the bottom three, however, then it kind of deals with the social issues that were asking you to comment on this morning and how they are of importance to those who participate in the poll. Abortion was 47 of those responding, Birth Control issues, issues 36 , and gay marriage issues 32 . Again, this poll was conducted in Early September and talks about other things, but talks about the social issues that might be of importance to those voters come november. There is a piece also if you go to the web site, this is called social outcast, and it talks about the debates you may have been seeing not only on cspan but other places, and if social issues are becoming a topic on those debates. This is the piece by william salitan. This was from july 26th, democratic senator mark warner. Moderator asked them about samesex marriage. Gillespie said its not my role to lodge is late it because i believe the appropriate venue is the state. Go to north carolina. On november 3 september third, this is the debate between democratic senator kay hagan and republican challenger thom tillis. Tillis repositioned himself, i first believe that contraception should be available probably more broadly than it is. He cites that hobby lobby claiming it was not about contraception and said the pill should be available over the counter. Hagan pressed the issue, saying she disagreed with the hobby lobby decision. Those are some of the issues being debated. You can see these on cspan. But when it comes to social issues that you may have when it comes to people and how you vote in november, here is your chance to tell us if theyre important to you or not, and maybe highlight those issues if they are. 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. For independents, and well take those calls in just a moment. When it comes to the topic of abortion being one of those issue, again you can see if you go to our campaign 2014 web site, we have listed all the debates that weve taken in and highlighted them for you. There it is on your screen. It was one of those topics that came up tuesday night. This was the texas governors debate between greg abbott and his democratic challenger wendy davis. Here is a little bit of the exchange. Im prolife. And im catholic, and i want to promote a culture of life that supports both the health and safety of both the mother and child, both before and after birth. In texas lets be clear about the law. And that is, the woman has five months to make a very difficult decision. Thank you very much senator davis. You catapulted into the spotlight on this issue with your filibuster against abortion restrictions but you recently told the Editorial Board of the Dallas Morning News you might not have filibustered if the with allowances for rape and incest. What kind of abortion restrictions are you willing to accept . I have always believed, brian, that it is for a woman and a woman guided by her faith and her family and her doctor to make these very difficult decisions for themselves. I do not believe that the government should intrude in that most personal and private of decision making. Host if you want the see that full debate go to our campaign 2014 web site, social issues and if theyll influence your vote. Independent line. Caller thanks for taking my call. On social issues, what would determine my vote would be immigration, how people stand. Also, these College Students coming out with large loans and no experience, try to address that issue more. And finally, the thought i had was the rules of war that were going through. Can we fight for some countries and not others . Can we control certain areas . What are the rules of war . If someone could explain whats going on with our social issues is what im looking for more. Im trying to. Host why would you categorize war, immigration as social issues . Caller im sorry. Host go ahead. Caller everything seems to be along rights and freedom being taken away. A new person trying to do something somewhere, and theyll mention stories like that and turn around and mention about brad pitt or angelina jolie. I wanted to ask about these fema camps that theyve been talking about popping up due to obamacare, and what were supposed to be receiving as far as obamacare. Host were dealing with social issues. Memphis tennessee, independent line, go ahead. Caller hello. I just wanted to im not sure how to say this, promote the legalization of marijuana in this country. My feelings of it is that it should bring in tax dollars, because there are a lot of dollars being spent, and anyone knows this. Most people know this. This is going on. And trying to prohibit it is costing tax dollars, not bringing in tax dollars. And thats my opinion of it. Host before you go, so you see Marijuana Legalization as totally an economic issue as far as tax dollars are concerned . What about social are you concerned about more people using it, how it might affect them on the jobs or elsewhere . Do those cross your mind . Caller they have. I would just hope that adults would be responsible enough to use it socially not during work time, that sort of thing. Has tennessee deal with this issue at all as far as legalization of medical marijuana or recreational use, has that been a top you can or anybody trying to push that in tennessee . Caller not that i heard. I know in mississippi they have, talking about letting it be legal to be grown in mississippi and distributed how they feel that it should be distributed. But that to me would not bring in tax dollars that way. So my mind is that theres a lot of tax dollars there to be brought in to the local economy and different economies. Host thats paulette. This is angelo, washington, d. C. , democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning, sir. They need to talk more about africanamerican issues that typically Police Brutality towards african males. None of these politicians speak on that. Speaking of the president ial election, if Hillary Clinton thinks she has the shoe in to be the democratic nominee, unless she starts speaking towards africanamerican issues, Police Brutality it is a tragedy how america is not speaking out against this and probably because of the you know, the fear from america as a whole towards the black male that this is just not looked at as a tragedy, its so many africanamerican families in such fear of being their children being killed because of police being either overly afraid or even racist, and i think that politicians need to stop being afraid to speak against that and the black american needs to make sure that the candidate that they choose is going to be adhering to their issues. Host before i let you go when it comes to these things, we talked about gay marriage, do those go on your radar when you vote for people . Caller absolutely. As far as abortion is concerned, im against abortion, but im also for prochoice. So im at the lower half of that. I dont try to make peoples minds up for them. I think the law it should be between god and that rid. Host from jamal in missouri, democrats line, hello. Caller yeah, i agree with the previous caller. Me personally, im not for abortion, but thats my personal choice. If someone else wants to do that let them do it. I vote democrats on social issues. On the republican side you have senator rand paul coming out and speaking out on behalf of africanamericans, all the stuff that happened ferguson. He was speaking way before the ferguson incident about hispanics being pulled over by police at higher rate than whites. Were all in this together. But in terms of republican side, rand paul is definitely host you wouldnt categorize yourself as a single issue type of voter when it comes to social issues, youll vote on it . Caller several things, economy, but in terms of social issues, yeah, i feel like it does play probably 40 of on how i vote because i feel like economics, if you want to succeed in life in terms of money and stuff, thats on you. Social issues, you know, plants and vegetables, yeah, i tend to vote more democrat on that. Host the declares morning news on its headline taking a look at the headline saying findings and fall out, investigating of this gentleman that was treated at texas hospital, now diagnosed with ebola just to show you the front page there. It talks about what u. S. Officials are doing when it comes to the situation in west africa. Thats in the New York Times. Social issues, and if they affect your vote this coming november, thats what we want to hear from you. Here is allen, independent line, stanley, virginia. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. I have a comment to make about the three things, abortion, immigration, and gay marriage. As far as abortion, every child has a right to live. Thats a god given thing, and we need to remember that. Second thing, gay marriage. Marriage should be between a man and a woman, period, no discussion. Even though the courts is changing everything the majority of the people voted on. Third, immigration. If people will comply with the laws of the land, i dont have an issue of that and i dont think any american would. But its just gone ballistic. There is no control of anything it seems like in immigration. So i hope the politicians will get their heads screwed on right and start fixing some of thse problems. Host allen, for those three things you listed, when you go to vote for somebody, are those the three categories you look at the most of whether youll vote for that person or not . Caller well, all of those things outlined is very important. These are some on the top of the list but there are a lot of things on there. The economy, obamacare, all these things, you have to consider in the process. And a lot of them are very legitimate points. At the top of the agenda thats mine. And all of them are very important. Host catherine is up next from bowling brook, illinois, democrats line. Caller good morning. My big social issue is with health care, and i know obamacare is changing a lot. But with ebola, when and when you go into the emergency room, one of the first things they ask you is not how sick you are, but can you pay. My son lives and works in the check republic. He came home on the 18th of september. Three days later he was traveling to wyoming and he got severe diarrhea. The doctor he called up the local clinic and they said i want you to come in. And one of the first things they asked him is can you pay . Fortunately, the doctor diagnosed it right. They didnt do any tests, because it would cost too much. And i believe with this ebola case, they missed it because the guy his Health Insurance probably covered him in liberia but not in the states. So when he went into the emergency room, they basically said, take two aspirin and call me in the morning. Host health care is a decision that youll vote on depending on kind of categorizes how youll vote in november, those who support health care . Caller it will. I actually think that the health care has to change. You cant be treated based upon whether you have even obamacare, it helps, but the hospitals have to stop being mindful of how much money do you have to spend here in america. Host some people Listing Health care as an issue, some listing Police Brutality, one person listing medical marijuana. Those could be your issues when it comes to voting. You may have others but here is how you can let us know what they are. 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats and for independents 202 202 585. Because of that, leading up to election day a couple ads out on is, from the People United for medical marijuana, it supports it. Its called it worked. Here is the ad. Voting yes on two will allow doctors to recommend the medicine three feel will ease the pain and suffering of thousands. Only for debilitating conditions and diseases such as cancer and ms, 23 states now keep government and politicians out of the doctor patient relationship. And its worked. Vote yes on two and trust our doctors to do whats best. Host lets here from gina from mississippi, republican line. Hi. Caller of course, all these issues are so important, but i think that the economy is the major issue. Hello . Host youre on. Go ahead. Caller im sorry. I think the economy is the big picture. I think we need to be able to focus on how all of these issues are going to affect our economy, because i work in the Health Care Industry in the clerical portion of it, and i can tell you right now that no way, no how do we have sufficient staff to be able to handle all the red tape thats required just to sign up to be a provider for these insurances. And now we have people coming in to the hospital, the emergency room, and everything with these insurances, and the doctors are not going to get paid because were not credentialed for any of these insurances. It is so much red tape that the average person doesnt even realize. And i believe the this ebola problem is going to really be our major problem because i dont understand why these people who go to africa or come back from africa cannot be quarantined and stopped at the border because i think this has the potential to crash our economy, because people are going to be afraid to go out of their house, to go in the store, to buy anything. Its really terrible. And i believe that this person had a suspicion he was sick, and he came to america so he could get health care. Host the New York Times takes a look at air travel and how it deals with those who are sick onboard, this is Matthew Walden writing that historically the airlines have been most concerned with passengers who are sick so they might force a flight to divert. The airlines are authorized to stop sick passengers from getting on planes but not required to do so. Under department of transportation rules the United States and foreign carriers flying to this country cannot exclude a passenger simply because a traveler has a disease but can do so if the disease poses a direct threat. Guidance issued by the Department Says if the disease is serious it constitutes such a threat it cites sars and that about your cue closes as examples. Herbert is from georgia, democrat line, hello. Caller hello. How you doing . I got no problem with me, because im not going to vote republican anyway, being a black individual, rush limbaugh, voting republican is not serving my best interests. Host what do you think about those . Caller and like im saying, abortion, samesex marriage, isis, they believe in those same issues, too. They dont believe in issue, in samesex marriage, they dont believe in gays. And look how we are fighting them. Those republicans, what you call them . Conservative isis people . If we vote republicans as a black individual we going to be in a world trouble in america. Host california, independent line. Caller yes. Hello. Host youre on. Caller thanks for taking my call. Basically im independent and it really concerns me about how the actually like what the last caller was saying as far as the republicans. Now im a black man, as well, but i do have a lot of views as republicans. But by the Republican Party being so contradicted and hypocritical of their own policies and the way they flipflop is amazing. Host do those views include social type of issues . Caller let me give you an example. Host okay. Caller for example, gays. Now thats not a gay woman or gay man is not affecting my life in no shape or form. Im going to do what im going to do with the lady of my choice. And as long as the gay lady or the gay woman is not interfering with my livelihood, you know, more power to them. They can, you know, do whatever they want. But i do respect the marriage, the marriage thing, because the marriage thing it was it was basically started on a religious aspect. So but that should not carry over into interfering with what gay people want to do. Host if a candidate supported gay marriage that wouldnt cause you to vote against them . Caller it wouldnt affect me at all. Host red oak, iowa, rob by, hello. Caller hello, pedro. My comment is on marijuana. We used to we had prohibition against alcohol, didnt we. And when we did that, we got the gangs and mobsters, and all that kind of crap. Well lets treat marijuana like we did alcohol. When it comes out of prohibition because after all, people using alcohol kill more people than people using marijuana do. And as far as that goes, cars kill more people than guns do so lets get rid of everything thats dangerous to people until people learn responsibility for their own actions. Thats whats lacking in america, responsibility for your own actions. Host so when it comes to november and you pull a lever for somebody, so to speak, do you take into consideration social issues at all . Caller well, yes, i do, because you know something, its our congress that has gotten this country in the shape its in. Like the like the citizens now that dont want responsibility, our Congress People they want their power and their money but they dont want the responsibility that goes with it to uphold the constitution. The city, the county, the state and the federal laws. Host social issues, how they will affect your vote in 2014. 202 5853881s fo for repair n. You heard the viewer, talk about marijuana. You saw the ad out of florida supportive of medical marijuana. Here is the opposing ad. Here it is. Amendment two isnt for the team, its caregiver provision gives Legal Protection to marijuana dealers, even felons and drug dealers could be caregivers. Amendment two caregivers dont need background checks or medical training. So what looks like a safeguard is really a loophole. Amendment two caregivers cant be arrested or sued if they hurt swufnlt they dont call it the drug dealer protection act but they should. Vote no a