11.   Health care dominated the public debate in the presidential campaign four years ago.

12.   How the next U.S. president would seize that opportunity should be a defining issue of the presidential campaign.

13.   Immigration is shaping up as a major presidential campaign issue this year especially in California.

14.   In a perfect world, presidential campaigns should leave the judiciary alone.

15.   Never before have such advertising blitzes taken place so early in a presidential campaign.

16.   Pete Wilson took in his unsuccessful presidential campaign in which he repeatedly highlighted affirmative action as a cutting-edge issue.

17.   Presidential campaigns seem to drag on forever.

18.   Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole could not leave it dangling as a rebuke to his legislative skills during his presidential campaign.

19.   So much money had been put into circulation because of the presidential campaign that inflation was rampant.

20.   The conventions have become nothing but cheerleading rallies for the presidential campaign ahead, their substantive political role all but eliminated.