The 2012 Presidential Election: What Issue Is Most Important To You?

A Patch poll on the issues most important to voters.

The economy will factor heavily in this year's presidential election. It's one reason why supporters Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, say he and the party raised more than $76 million in May — $16 million more than President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party raised. But the economy is not the only issue driving voters to the polls. For some voters, it could be national security and defense, others it may be moral issues such as gay marriage. What are the issues driving your vote this election?

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State Democrat: Romney Can't Relate To Average Americans

'He is both out of touch with our beliefs and wrong for Georgia in every way.'

by Stacey Abrams Mitt Romney campaigned in Georgia ahead of Tuesday’s primary, and Georgia voters are getting a taste of what 11 other states have already learned — Mitt Romney will say anything to get elected. He claims he’s a Washington outsider, but Romney boasted about how his Washington connections helped get hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for the 2002 Winter Olympics, despite refusing to offer the same support  to small businesses. He’s asking Georgians to vote for him, but he is both out of touch with our beliefs and wrong for Georgia in every way. Whether he is bragging about his NASCAR-team owning friends, his wife's two Cadillacs, or arguing that corporations are people, Mitt Romney's unscripted comments are not gaffes…

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Super Tuesday Is March 6: How Will You Vote?

East Atlanta Patch voters in DeKalb to decide Sunday alcohol sales; those in Atlanta will determine fate of the one-penny municipal option sales tax.

Super Tuesday in Georgia will be one super vote in Georgia. There's the Republican presidential primary, which includes Georgia's own and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. But voters in East Atlanta Patch will have a couple of local, but important issues to decide, too, on March 6. Those voters in the city limits of Atlanta will be asked to vote to reauthorize a one-cent municipal option sales tax — MOST — that aims to keep water rates down. If voters fail to renew the tax, water rates could increase by 25 to 30 percent. Atlanta voters already reauthorized MOST in 2008 after first voting for it in 2004. This next MOST authorization, if approved, would be for another four-year-period and is projected to generate up to $750 million …

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