Candidates on the Issues

Abortion
McCain: opposes abortion except in cases such as rape, incest or threat, or death to the mother. He stated that he opposes abortion because it would cause an enormous amount of women to go into an illegeal and dangerous operation.
Obama: supports abortion laws but trusts women to make their own decisions acording to their needs.
Education
McCain: supports education stating that low-income and middle-class families should have the same educational benefits as wealthier families do. He also beleives that public and private schools should be accecible to all children no matter how much money their parents have.
Obama: supports education and plans on funding charter schools as a way to increase the competition in the school system.
Death Penalty
McCain: supports the death penalty but syas it should not be used on minors. He plans on harshening the capital punishment for other crmes.
Obama: supports capital punishment but stated that "it does little to deter crime." Although he supports capital punishment he disagrees with confessions and integrogations being filmed.
Environment
McCain: opposed drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve unless it had some benefits or wouldn't cause damage to the enviroment. He opposes the ban offshore drilling because the price of oil has recently gone up.
Obama: Opposes drilling in the Wildlife Reserve but suppoorts offshore drilling because he beleives it will decrease oil prices.
Health Care
McCain: supports health care and wants to encourage families to to buy insurance.
Obama: supports health care and is determined to implement it for all American.
Immigration
McCain: opposes imagration and plans on doubleing the amount of border security in order to stop illigal imigrates from coming to America.
Obama: opposes illigal imigrant entering into the U.S and plans on using higher technology to find the illigal immigrants. He also stated he would put more security at our borders.
Iraq War
McCain: supports the war in Iraq and plans on approving Americas force there. He doea want the war to stop but not right now because it may cause greater unstablity in the future.
Obama: opposes the war saying it was a rash and dumb decision for America to enter it in the first place.
Economy
McCian: Supports plans to reform Washington D.C. by lower taxes and encouraging people to spend only what they can afford.
Obama: supports lessening America's dependancy on Foriegn countries in order to keep money within the united states.
Poverty
McCain: opposes poverty saying we should not have thousands of people not being able to afford education, food, and daily needs for their children.
Obama: opposes poverty and by lowering tax breaks he plans on making poverty inprove.
Stem Cell Research
McCain: opposes emryonic stem cell research but supports using adult stem cells. Although he apposes stem cell research he made the decision to allow left over embryonic cells to be used for research if he becomes president.
Obama: supports stem cell research agreeing with Goerge Bush's law that will allow disgarded cells to be used for research.