1.   Despite all this, the election turned into a referendum on two explosive issues.

2.   The election has turned into a real dogfight.

3.   The presidential election turned out to be one of the biggest landslides in history.

4.   Another tactic is to try to build the strong Republican base of Orange County, which often determined how state elections turned out in the past.

5.   But Democrats insist that the midterm election will turn on local issues, and that they will be in good political shape as long as they embrace domestic security.

6.   But many analysts say the election could turn on the rural results.

7.   But the election did not turn out to be the cakewalk Chretien envisioned.

8.   Dole insists that the election will turn on the issue of trust.

9.   Democrats would be better served, Moran said, if the election turns on issues such as education, health care and the future of Social Security.

10.   Even Newt Gingrich has no clear idea how this election will turn out.