If campaign issues were movies, the day care issue would be one of the biggest ballot-box-office flops of the 1990 season.

Its lack of vote-drawing power has confounded the critics. Political commentators hailed child care as one of the emerging issues of the 1990s. Any politician or party without a plan to solve this latest societal "crisis" was predicted to be a sure flop among poll-goers. Instead, child care has turned out to be a non- issue in the political theater.

Day care lacks punch as a political issue not because it is unimportant to people, but because Americans remain ...

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