Representative Barbara B. Kennelly, a Democrat running for governor against Mr. Rowland, accused him of an election-year conversion on environmental issues.

"That's an election-year conversion," Mr. Daschle said.

He described Mr. Clinton's decision as an "election-year conversion" and said it was "welcome news to those of us who have been leading the fight to reform our failed welfare system."

Mr. Lazio's 11th-hour election-year conversion to reform is nothing more than a pathetic fraud.

Mr. Dole has long supported the B-2 and called Mr. Clinton's move "a halfhearted election-year conversion."

This suspicion of concentrated power in general and Washington in particular is not some election-year conversion for Thompson.

This is not an election-year conversion; it is an election-year trick.

The first 90 days suggest an answer: The moratorium smacks of an election-year conversion to improve Mr. Bush's standing with conservatives and business interests that abhor regulation.

Here it's election year - an election-year conversion again.

A spokesman for Mr. Weld said Mr. Kerry had undergone "an election-year conversion."