In Congress Ford was one of 81 Democrats to vote for the Iraq war [1]. Ford considers himself pro-life although he supports abortion in some circumstances. When running for Senate Ford claimed he had an 87 percent pro life voting record. Ford opposed a filibuster on Samuel Alto, saying that Democrats who supported it were fringe liberals and were out of touch with mainstream moderate to conservative middle Americans [2]. Ford supported the defence against marriage act and opposes gay marriage. However, he supports affordable health care insurance, saying: "To start, we need to provide affordiable health care and universal college and lifelong education." [3] Ford supports fiscally conservative politics part of the time and is a member of the Blue Dog Democrats. He also supported the Bush t
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