Words similar to election-year

Example sentences for: election-year

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No doubt--as former Congressional Budget Office Director Bob Reischauer points out--with all the election-year pressure on Republicans to show they really aren't so bad and the temptation for Clinton to show his newfound muscle, the final appropriations package isn't bad.
Obviously, a president's ambition, judgment, temperament, integrity, and ways of relating with other people (among other psychological qualities) bear greatly on how he will govern--at least as greatly as whatever election-year stands he stakes out on "the issues" of policy.
And the word is that even Republican focus groups--the same groups that were used to craft the Contract With America --have reacted scornfully to the idea of an election-year tax-cut promise.
But for now, the Candidate Selector is no more than a terrific party game--the election-year equivalent of having your palm read.
Yet it was treated by nearly all commentators as a purely political document--an election-year effort to accentuate the positive.