16] with the country's political and military leaders still apparently deadlocked on the vital issue of candidate lists.
The issue of candidate health and medical records has come to the forefront after the Clinton campaign revealed on Sunday – eight hours after she abruptly left the ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial – that the former secretary of state had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier.
Trump's adviser explained that the issue of the candidate's temperament was not some phantom attack created by his opponents.
The decision was taken after Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert, one of parliament's most visible advocates of the decriminalisation of drugs, raised the issue of a candidate from Cista standing against him.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved one of President Bush's appeals court nominees today after a debate that was less about the usual issue of the candidate's ideology than about his membership in an all-male fishing club.
The issue of which candidate to choose — Ethan A. Hastert, a lawyer, political newcomer and son of the former speaker, or Randy Hultgren, a veteran state senator and financial adviser — has consumed the quiet counties west of Chicago that make up the district, as the candidates' anti-abortion, antitax, small-government platforms are nearly identical.
But it was only in 1991, with the furor over Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas, that the crumbling borderline between public and private, and the issue of a candidate's sexual "character," assumed the centrality that would make it the defining theme of the Clinton era, from the near-disaster of Gennifer Flowers to Paula Jones' lawsuit to the denouement of impeachment.
Indeed, it's small wonder that in a CBS poll of undecided voters, Obama's advantage on the issue of which candidate better understands "your needs and problems" jumped from 18 points to 56.
Preferable, a strategy that turns the negativity into a character issue of the candidate that is condoning it.
In a conference call with reporters last week, Whitman's chief strategist, Mike Murphy, addressed the issue of his candidate's loss of support among Latinos, arguing that the former eBay CEO would not suffer permanently because Latinos are not single-issue voters.
