1.   Their policy rehearsals are the political equivalent of jogging.

2.   And others argue that the Bush organization, by touting its strengths, is merely engaged in the political equivalent of chest-pounding.

3.   A political equivalent in its time was the David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon marriage.

4.   Buchanan predicted that a victory in Arizona would set off the political equivalent of a chain reaction in the upcoming primaries.

5.   But in the past week, a nation hungry for serious debates over serious questions saw those issues reduced to the political equivalent of beach volleyball.

6.   But it remained for Clinton to turn the Lincoln bedroom into the political equivalent of a hot-pillow motel.

7.   But why have so many people recently decided to do the political equivalent of going to bed without supper?

8.   Common sense is the political equivalent of mad cow disease.

9.   Defaulting would be the political equivalent of taking the Fifth Amendment, other lawyers have said.