From her first "listening tour" in upstate New York in the summer of 1999, the fundamental strategic thrust of Hillary Clinton's candidacy was to turn down the volume: to divert attention from the very thing that made it so compelling -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- with a conventional, issue-oriented, flat line of a campaign.
Illegal immigration, Trump's signature issue as a candidate, insofar as he ran on conventional issues, is different.
Virginity, marriage — instead of agonizing over such conventional issues, she should have been trying for more out of life".
"It's a fast-moving and controversial area, but it raises all the conventional issues - legitimacy, democracy, participation, consent".
But I have seen no single piece anywhere that so directly, thoughtfully, and (I think) intelligently addresses the organic vs. conventional issues.
Civil rights complaints filed with the Department of Transportation have usually involved more conventional issues, like alleged employment discrimination by transit agencies, or the failure of airlines and cruise ships to provide access for disabled people.
Other than being aware of the conventional issues of scientific misconduct--fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in research--our scientists must be prepared to face issues critical in today's scientific endeavors.
Many Southern officials and citizens -- both white and black -- now function in working alliances and normal operations along ostensible lines of conventional issues.
A somewhat dreary statement in some ways an argument that old dogs can't be taught new tricks, and established conservative or liberal voters can't be simply moved from party lines by throwing conventional issues at them.
