As with gun control, he hadn't emphasized the issue in his campaign or in his first year as governor.
If the Democrats emphasized the issue, even in their primaries, it could seem a distraction from issues that are more important to most Americans, including the war, gasoline prices and health care, said David Winston, a Republican pollster.
Mr. Bush seldom emphasized the issue of abortion during his campaign, and when it came up, he took pains to strike moderate notes, saying it was an issue on which good, reasonable people disagreed.
He noted that while some mainline churches had reported increased attendance as they emphasized the issue, Emmanuel's congregation, now about 250 families, had declined even though the church had been active on environmental issues for more than a decade.
"The more one side emphasized the issue — as happened with Trump on Islam and Muslims — the more the other side took the opposite position.... Trump the president should have more sway.
Furthermore, we emphasized the issue of two major limitations in the discussion section: the limited number of subjects as well as the lack of an active control group.
Mr. Cheney has been emphasizing the issues of oil and military might for much of the campaign.
The director, Joe Mantello, who also organized the 2007 Off Broadway staging, which starred Daniels and Alison Pill, has a weakness for emphasizing the issues in "issue plays".
In the end, Mr. Gore has little choice but to emphasize the issues and hope for the best because, as the Times survey shows, those issues are his greatest strength.
But, instead of emphasizing the issues on which he campaigned… he has found himself addressing a range of liberal social issues: gun control, civil unions, and a new law legalizing marijuana".
