The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1996 Page: 4 of 20
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on die issues:
(What the candidates actually endorse, without the rhetoric)
The foUpwing information,m& compiled from the candidates' Web pages and campaign literature
Economy
Clinton
Dole
Balanced Budget
• Balanced budget by 2002
• Balanced budget by 2002 and Balanced
Budget Amendment to the Constitution
Taxes and Tax Reform
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• $l,500/year tuition tax credit
• $5,000 tax credit for adoptive parents
• Middle-Class capital gains tax break for those
who sell their homes
• Expand Investment Retirement Accounts
• 15 percent across-the-board tax cut
• $500/child tax credit for families with children
under 18
• Reduction of capital gains tax from 28 percent to
14 percent *
• Repetfl'of Social Security benefits tax
• Expand Investment Retirement Accounts
Minimum Wage Increase
• Supports
• Opposes
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Education
Clinton
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Dole
Department of Education
• Keep Department of Education
• Abolish Department of Education and move
education to the states
Federal Education Loans
• Expand Pell Grants
• Expand Work-Study programs
• Favors tax cuts for higher education
• Abolish "perverse" direct lending programs,
while still keeping funding
School Vouchers
• Opposes
• Supports .
Goals 2000
• Supports
• Opposes
Crime and
Clinton
Dole
Assault Weapons Ban
• Supports
• Opposes
Drug Policy
Handgun Control
• Supports expanding the Brady Bill to keep
domestic violence offenders from buying guns
• Ban the manufacture of "cop killer" bullets
• Proposes a National Instant Check system to
monitor handgun purchases
• Double funding for new prisons
Sentencing biws
• Favors 'Three Strikes" laws
• Seeks to abolish parole for violent criminals
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Drug Policy
*• Supports "zero tolerance" laws for schools
• Would use presidency as a "bully pulpit" for a "just
say no" campaign
Foreign
Policy and
National
Defense
Clinton
Dole
United Nations
Middle East Policy
Bosnia/The Balkans
Missile Defense
Defense Expenditures
Favors multilateral actions and further
participation in the U N.
Supports U.S. involvement in Israeli Arab
negotiations
Supported I IS. involvement in the Balkans
Supports Test Ban Treaty
Favors START 11 and other disarmament treaties
Favors small increases in defense spending
• Would restrict U.N. participation; supports more
unilateral actions
• Opposes U.S. intervention in Israeli domestic affairs
• Supported arming Bosnian troops over direct
intervention
• Skeptical of Test Ban Treaty
• Favors Strategic Defense Initiative-type programs
• Favors larger increases in defense spending
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Clinton has 31-point lead over Dole among Rice students
Question: Who would you vote for in
the presidential race?
Nader Other
Perot
2%
Undecided
17%
Clinton
54%
A recently conducted Thresher phone
poll of 340 undergraduates at Rice shows
that President Bill Clinton enjoys a
commanding lead over Bob Dole, even
more so than in national polls.
In addition, the poll found that nearly
50 percent of Rice undergraduates believe
that the Democratic Party does a better
job of representing their personal views,
as opposed to one-third who believe,that
the Republican Party does a belter job.
Question: What political party, if any,
best represents your personal views?
Neither
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Democratic
45%
Republican
-29%
Results are based on a poll of 340 students conducted from 9 p.m. to .11 p.m. on Oct. 23 and 24. Thresher members called a representative sample of each college and polled the students
who answered their phones n
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Beard, Marty & Rao, Vivek. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1996, newspaper, November 1, 1996; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246551/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.