Word: issueless
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Eight of nine incumbents held on to their Boston City Council seats after an issueless campaign...
...predominantly issueless campaign, Boston School Committee President David Finnegan has outlined some concrete policy proposals that make sense for Boston. Finnegan's record on the School Committee has been solid; he supports vacancy decontrol, has had experience in fighting racism and wants to draw the city's diverse elements together. But Finnegan seems overly sympathetic to the needs of the private sector. His embarrassing resignation from his $20,000 a year job as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry is only symptomatic of such leanings...
...tire of campaign's sameness, and seek the unusual. They pounce on blunders, magnify the trivial and sometimes distort as much as they clarify. For this they may be understood but not wholly forgiven. This election year has witnessed press criticism of a campaign alternatively termed petty, banal and issueless; the irony is that the objects of criticism were often of the media's own creation...
Throughout the race, convention leaders have maintained that a high turnout in this year's basically issueless and lackluster campaign would indicate success for the Convention...
Last week the 1,207 delegates at the Democratic state convention in Hartford nominated Grasso as the party's candidate for governor. She has been the leading contender in a relatively issueless race since well before she announced her candidacy last January. Two weeks ago her major rival, State Attorney General Robert Killian, gave up what looked like an increasingly hopeless fight against her. He agreed to join the ticket as nominee for lieutenant governor...