1.   Business and baseball were his dominant interests until he caught the political bug.

2.   But it should be noted that Forbes Sr. also was stricken with the political bug, although at a younger age than his son.

3.   Even in New Jersey, where the attorneys general have seldom run for election to anything, the political bug seems to bite occupants of the office.

4.   Growing up in Minneapolis, Franken was bitten by the political bug very early in life.

5.   He got the political bug from Evans, too, while interning in his Capitol Hill office during a college semester in Washington.

6.   Last fall, the political bug bit again.

7.   She caught the political bug in high school when a friend recruited her to help set up a teen-age Republican club.

8.   The general explained that he never got the political bug.

9.   While attending the University of Texas at Austin, she worked for state representative Elliot Naishtat and was bitten by the political bug.