Word: hot-button
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...conservative groups are gearing up for a faster battle too. For weeks a group of about 30 socially conservative activists have been meeting to plot strategy on gay marriage, which they expect to be a hot-button issue in the 2004 presidential election. "Our people are raring to go," says Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition. "Every time you get two lesbians on television talking about marriage, that just fires them...
...long been a hot-button issue in Cambridge politics...
While most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...
...Switzerland's population is foreign-born, one of the highest percentages in Europe, and last year more than 26,000 asylum seekers and refugees came to the country - costing the government j590 million. As it has in the past, the SVP is making immigration (legal and otherwise) a hot-button issue. But this time around the party is breaking out of its traditional elderly, agrarian base to attract younger and more liberal voters - like Pierre-Alain Favre, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Geneva who has always voted for more moderate parties. "Every night I see African drug dealers...
...wisdom among consultants is that you run in California by raising a lot of money and putting it all on television. The public has reacted to these soulless exercises with disdainful apathy; Californians tend to be more interested when the state's nutty kernel of political extremists put some hot-button initiative--about race, immigration or taxes, inevitably--on the ballot. Indeed, there is a weird karmic genius to the current electoral gimmick, the movement to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. It has turned politics itself into a ballot issue--with Davis in the dock, representing a system...