If I were a one-issue candidate, I would not have won the nomination.

"It produces one-issue candidates," he says, "and turns out fractional people."

"She is not a one-issue candidate," he says.

"I'm not a one-issue candidate like some of the others who just want to save the whales or abolish the income tax," he said.

And he has done it, by his own admission, as a one-issue candidate: all health care, all the time.

What I tell them is, know your community well, work hard and don't be a one-issue candidate.

His campaign shows he's more than a one-issue candidate.

In her first campaign, "the other side would try to paint me as a one-issue candidate," Representative McCarthy said.

"He doesn't want them to think he is a one-issue candidate."

But at the same time, she tries not to say it all the time, for fear of becoming a one-issue candidate.