For good or ill, the home of everyday low prices has become America's biggest political football.
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Then the regulation of the press becomes a political football, and we don't want that.
"Alex Maskey made it into a political football for his own ends, " he said.
Immigration from the south has long been a political football thrown around by both political parties.
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As for Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, the estate tax remains a political football.
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And are you reluctant to turn it into a political football like it was a year ago?
We all should be embarrassed at the way national defense has been degraded to a political football.
With the fiscal cliff fight still raging, the next political football has also been tossed into play.
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The dollar would continue be a centrally managed political football, upon which the private sector cannot rely.
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"The decision has been made and we shouldn't draw the cenotaph into being a political football, " he said.
For Argentina, she said, the islands are a "political football" used to distract Argentinians from problems at home.
"It was a political football that they punted back onto Congress's side of the field, " said Joseph J.
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The National Union of Teachers said qualifications were used as a "political football" by past and current governments.
But I get angry when people use the GM bailout as a political football and ignore the facts.
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Lesley Griffiths says it's too important to become a "political football" and should be "free from political point-scoring".
The issue is fast becoming a political football, and one President Barack Obama hopes to score with young voters.
Corporate tax rates are now a highly charged political football with misinformation thrown long and deep on both sides.
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The NHS in Wales may be the responsibility of the Welsh government in Cardiff but it remains a political football at Westminster.
Ms Griffiths concluded by underlining that "this issue is too important and too emotionally charged to be used as a political football".
It also drew a complaint from Damilola's parents, whose solicitor said the boy's death should not be used as a political football.
Google "NHS" and "political football" and you won't be short of options.
Almost anything in the Islamic republic can become political football, including football.
And second, Ahmadinejad has attempted to use his words as exactly the kind of foil and political football that the President wanted to avoid.
Any court ruling supporting preemption could be overturned through legislation--although such a rapid reversal of policy could still turn the FDA into a political football.
The issue becomes a political football and cause for pointless debate.
Is Sesame Street a political football in the War on Terrorism?
It is regrettable that gun control has become a political football.
It should come as no surprise that both sides of the contentious U.S. presidential race are headed into overtime playing political football with the auto industry.
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Today the market was lifted on positive sentiment, due mainly to the release of the hotly debated, political football we normally call the unemployment rate number.
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"The immigration system, I think we all agree, is broken and it's been a political football for years and years...and it needs to be fixed, " Romney said.
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