Democrats said they saw child care as an excellent election-year issue.

The finding lent support to backers of voucher programs at a time when they have become an election-year issue.

"The Democrats were declaring that it would be an election-year issue."

Why the soft touch by Democrats on such a major election-year political issue?

Instead, the rally was a clear attempt by organizers to elevate housing as an election-year issue.

Taken together, the moves reflected apprehension among some Republicans that the deficit is gaining new currency as an election-year issue.

The President promised weeks ago to sign the bill, blunting an election-year issue the Republicans had hoped to use against him.

India's latest export officially arrives on the shores of America today and, for a change, it won't be an election-year issue.

On Earth, immigration policy became an election-year issue.

And for the first time, they injected the President personally into a political dispute that is gaining visibility as an election-year issue.