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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Jun 2016

    Do single-issue voters always make the world worse, or are there significant counterexamples?

    8:12 AM - 15 Jun 2016
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      2. Keith Rabois‏ @rabois 15 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        lots of pro choice or pro life single issue voters over the years so depending on your view of the issue yes it can be good.

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      3. Steven Sinofsky‏Verified account @stevesi 15 Jun 2016
        Replying to @rabois @paulg

        Most voters/elections "single issue"—unions, guns, soc sec/Medicare, reproduction—local level: property tax, schools, growth.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Ari Isaacs‏ @ariisaacs 15 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        Gay rights (a while back and in much of the world today)

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      1. Evan Goldfine‏ @IsThisMyMoney 15 Jun 2016
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        I've unexpectedly become a single issue voter against government testing based on religion.

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      1. Bryan 'Smokin Barack' Liles‏ @bryanl 15 Jun 2016
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        I think putting more onus on single issue voters than gerrymandering is a mistake

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      1. Josh Robinson‏ @jrobinjos 15 Jun 2016
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        campaign finance reform

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      1. Joshua Auerbach‏ @auerbach 15 Jun 2016
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        I often disagree with them, but I'm glad there are single-issue voters focused on "freedom."

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      1. ianmconnor‏ @ianmconnor 15 Jun 2016
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        only a problem in a country that still doesn't have preferential voting.

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      1. deniscollison‏ @deniscollison 15 Jun 2016
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        .@paulg, we have a lot of experience of this in Ireland - and no, I don't think it ever makes things better.

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      1. Rich Apodaca‏ @rapodaca 15 Jun 2016
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        Suffrage, Abolition, Civil Rights, Anti-Vietnam War, Anti-Iraq War?

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      1. Ganesh‏ @ganeshc3 15 Jun 2016
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        plenty of counters-gay/m minority rights- in fact single issue voters make the world go round. The rest of us add to the noise

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      1. cvaidya‏ @cvaidya1986 15 Jun 2016
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        depends on how important that single issue is. Similar to how yc evals startups on the single issue of making something users want.

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      1. Jeff Thompson‏ @jwthomp 15 Jun 2016
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        I would think that politicians who build their careers on single issue voters are more ‘dangerous’ than the voters themselves?

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      2. Mike Tⓐylor  🇬🇧  🇪🇺‏ @MikeTaylor 15 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        I know of some at local-government level, e.g. a short-lived party formed to keep a football club at its original home.

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      3. Mike Tⓐylor  🇬🇧  🇪🇺‏ @MikeTaylor 15 Jun 2016
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        At a national level, if I had the opportunity I would vote for @lessig as President for his single-issue campaign of finance reform.

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      1. Jay Nelson‏ @duomark 15 Jun 2016
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        .@paulg have you ever applied root-cause analysis?

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      1. Willis F Jackson III‏ @wfjackson3 15 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        do people always complain others as they get older, or are there significant counter-examples? #mostlykidding

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      1. Arty San‏ @artesesan 15 Jun 2016
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        : if only we had direct democracy at federal level, like the cal ballot measures, I(not the lawmakers) can choose on every single one

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      1. Autumnal Misha‏ @drethelin 15 Jun 2016
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        single issue voting is simply a reasonable response to the shape of our democracy

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