As much as we would like to vote for the "person", the fact is we have to vote for the platform of a political party.  That is what any politician will have to fight for while he is in office, or waste time fighting against in his own party.  The Democrats have the platform I will vote for every time.  I don't want what the Republicans are trying to sell and stuff down our throats.  They wear the mask of  "good religious folk" while they take aid and food away from the elderly and the poor.  It all depends on what kind of country you want to live in.  I can't bare the thought of living in the kind of country the religious right and the Tea Party wants to have.