Back to Square One: Single Issue Voting

Back to Square One: Single Issue Voting

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Ken Briggs  |  Oct. 12, 2016

Common sense alone dictates that single issue voting has always loomed large in politics. Issues like taxes, slavery, temperance, war and women's rights are just some of the causes that by themselves whipped up support for candidates both for and against.
This year's political fury has been so diffuse, tumultuous and scattered that no one flash point has dominated the scene. The exception might be the question of Donald Trump's sanity.