11.   More than six months later, prescription drug coverage is back on the front pages, thanks to the forces of rising drug prices and election year politics.

12.   The fact that it is reemerging now is less about election politics and more rough justice for a job very poorly done.

13.   The plan, crafted during the past three weeks, has been praised by some and criticized as election politics by others.

14.   The vanishing swing district is one of the most telling examples of how the nature of congressional election politics has changed.

15.   These efforts at compromise could well be thwarted by the forces of election year politics.

16.   They think their congressmen are attempting to clean up election politics.

17.   We call it the Heisman campaign and dress it up in the language of election politics, but the allegory misses the point.

18.   Both sides are depicting the upcoming debate on China as one of the biggest of the year, one complicated by election year politics.

19.   Bribery has always been a big issue in the Macau election politics.

20.   In between all the diplomatic activity, Bush tends to election politics Wednesday at a Washington fund-raising dinner for the Republican House and Senate campaign committees.