---
title: "Issues in Search of a Campaign"
description: "by Andrew Kohut in The New York Times"
date: "2002-10-14"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2002/10/14/issues-in-search-of-a-campaign/"
categories:
  - "Election 2002"
---

# Issues in Search of a Campaign

Rarely has the mood of American voters been as inscrutable as in the current election cycle. What issues will the midterm election turn on: a new war with Iraq, the war on terrorism, a sagging economy, a stock market boom gone bust, one of the biggest business scandals in American history, or the old domestic agenda lost... [Read more](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/opinion/14KOHU.html)