How know legible do you consider yourself in terms of political issues?

I ask the question because it dawned on me that I really don't know enough about the political ins and outs of health care. The election will be here before I know it. That's a hot botton issue that I plan to research thoroughly before voting next November. I consider myself knowlegible about farm and livestock subsidizing, campaign finance laws, environmental policy, abortion laws, lobbying, gun crontol, and taxation.
My weaknesses include: knowledge about overall federal expenditures and earmarks, healthcare, and foreign policy. Because I don't know enough about the politics, economics, and laws of other countries intertwined with us there's no way I can truly consider myself educated on foreign affairs. I haven't done indept research on the health care systems of other modern nations. I don't really know which models would be a viable option for the U.S. to imitate, if any.

What do you consider your strengths and weaknesses?
What do you wish you knew more about?

We are all ignorant (completely or in part) about certain political issues. Even judges, legislators and members of the executive branch know more about certain areas than about others. (The Secretary of Education knows less about the war in Iraq than does the Secretary of Defense.)

The key for an approach to having valid opinions about public issues is (1) either gather sufficient information from bipartisan sources about the issue, or don't opine on it and (2) find a value system in which you believe which can for a basis for more than just what "feels right" about issues.