With two democrats, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton; and six republicans, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson left in the race, we start to see tougher and more dividing questions happening in debates and interviews. As this continues the candidate’s build up their platforms even more, making it easier for undecided voters to see their views and stances on various topics.

For the democratic party Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have mostly similar goals for presidency, the topics they disagree on most are based around war, guns, foreign policy, and taxes. Sanders believes it is time for our nation to stop the policy of unilateral military action and instead making diplomacy the top priority. Sanders also believes taxing the wealthy 1% and giving breaks to the middle class and poor, this goes along with his plan for both free health care and free college. He intends to have them paid for with the money from raising taxes to those who may never of had to pay taxes before. Clinton agrees with Sanders idea to tax the unfairly rich 1%, and while supporting Obamacare whole heartedly, she does not believe free health care is a realistic possibility yet. As for foreign policy she has stated that as president she would strengthen alliances, keep the military up to date and put plans in place to defeat ISIS.

As for the republican party, at a distance all their opinions seem to be identical, but these are outlooks that seem to resonate with the party’s voters as a whole. They all want to put up permanent walls around the United States and have strict patrol standing by. Only John Kasich has admitted that the task to deport all immigrants already here is ludacris and borderline impossible. They are all active pro-life supporters, protectors of our second amendment to bear arms, want to become an aggressive force throughout the world, and believe taxes should be lowered for families of at least four. As far as healthcare goes, all of them except Kasich want to end Obamacare and allow everyone different options.

To find out more about each individual candidate you can visit these websites to become more informed and be ready to vote in the Illinois primary on Tuesday, March 15.
http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/what-the-candidates-believe/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/candidates-on-the-issues.html