Failure to clear streets can turn into an election issue.
It is far from clear whether the vote will become a potent election issue over the next year.
In a tough campaign, she wanted to draw attention to "serious election issues."
Democrats had not used gun control in the past as an election issue.
If this isn't the election issue, I don't know what is.
But leaders in both parties seem to want an election issue, not a bill.
"Both the left and right have used the bridge as an election issue."
"Let this become an election issue in 2006," he announced.
A key election issue where those who run services have to make tough decisions.
The use of Portuguese became an important election issue this year.