We are dealing here with a political sleeper issue.

Two years ago, divestment was a sleeper issue at the Presbyterian general assembly, passing without much controversy.

This could be a powerful sleeper issue in this and future elections.

If the council action here is any indication, natural medicine could prove to be a sleeper political issue in the national health care debate.

But the controversy is emerging as the sleeper issue in next year's elections.

Access has been a sleeper issue primarily because it is so complex.

The need for fundamental legislative reform is one of the sleeper issues of the campaign.

For months it was a sleeper issue in the health care debate.

Nationally, the environment was a sleeper issue that never awoke.

Still, many Democrats are not so sure they have yet hit on a sleeper issue.