Word: issueless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This prediction is further enhanced by the current issueless campaign, when large groups of citizens are not aroused to vote as they were two years ago. At that time a School Committee issue concerning 17 controversial appointments stirred the CCA virtually to demand that the education of the city's children not be subject to personal political feuds. In 1957, there at least was an issue of the "ins" versus the "outs...
...might wonder, are 31 candidates vying for nine City Council posts in an issueless campaign? This large group includes the perenial outs--usually old men from a small, ethnically-tight community within the city--and several new-comers...
Basically though, all signs indicate the election will be routine and issueless. One possible debate, centering about fluordidation of the city's water supply, has been muffled because of the obvious emotional tinges such an argument would bring into the campaign. An active fluoridation wrangle would become an unsettling factor for all candidates; all else, even personality, might become subordinate. Hence, the issue has been kept reasonably quiet...