Political football
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political-football-319-7201574
title:
Political football
text:
A political football is a topic or issue that is seized on by opposing political parties or factions and made a more political issue than it might initially seem to be. "To make a political football" [out of something] is defined in William Safire's Safire's Political Dictionary as "To thrust a social, national security, or otherwise ostensibly non-political matter into partisan politics". In 1953 the gangster Lucky Luciano complained in an interview to Safire that "I been a political football".
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encyclopedia
description:
Expression in politics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_football
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date modified:
2023-05-28T20:12:56Z
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