11. And since he has matched the other GOP candidates in a no-new-taxes pledge, the primary campaign issues will inevitably move to stickier areas. 12. And strategists said they were likely to become campaign issues only on a district-by-district basis, primarily in conservative areas of the South. 13. And there are political strategists on both sides of the aisle who are arguing that their party would have a starker campaign issue without a budget deal. 14. And Washington suffers from a pre-election disposition in both parties toward confrontation rather than compromise, putting a priority on building campaign issues instead of a legislative record. 15. And the two candidates whose marathon donnybrook has now spilled into the Supreme Court made that body a major campaign issue. 16. Animas-La Plata opponents say such stories are part of why the project is not a bigger campaign issue this time around. 17. Another in a series of reports on key campaign issues. 18. Another reason why a breakthrough does not seem near is that Russian officials know missile defense is a campaign issue. 19. Anti-smoking advocates said on Wednesday that they doubted the Clinton administration would take that long, given the surprising potency of cigarettes as a campaign issue. 20. Any resolution attempted in the months leading to a national election would inevitably become a campaign issue. |