The 'other election' is a Capitol dogfight.

Reports the results of a poll by `U.S. News' concerning problems with which voters in the United States were most concerned as of fall 1999, and which political party they favored to fix them. Issues of restoring moral values, improving education and health care, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, reducing taxes and government spending, strengthening the economy, and fighting crime and drugs; How the issues affected the images of the Democratic and Republican parties.