11.   It left the conservatives buzzing about education as a possible new wedge issue.

12.   It seemed innocent enough at first but became a wedge issue later.

13.   Like abortion and gay rights, guns are fast becoming a wedge issue in electoral politics.

14.   Many thought guns would be an ideal wedge issue.

15.   Moderate Republicans, such as Campbell, clearly see tort reform as a wedge issue.

16.   Other Republicans expressed concern that the White House would try to use immigration as a wedge issue.

17.   Snowmobiles in Yellowstone have become a high-blood-pressure wedge issue for Americans who use and care about the national park system.

18.   Slavery was a wedge issue.

19.   The race, at least for the GOP nomination, tightened, and all of a sudden religion emerged as the wedge issue of the moment.

20.   The social conservatism has been especially crucial, for it has allowed Clinton to blunt a variety of wedge issues that Bob Dole has badly wanted to wield.