- Issue: problème
- To promote: promouvoir
- Policy: politique
- To spend: dépenser
- Expenditure: dépense
- To wield: exercer / manier
- To grade: noter
- Rating: classement
- Poll: vote / scrutin
- To claim: déclarer
- To inflate: gonfler
- To boast: se vanter
- Advocate: défenseur / militant
- Staunchly: résolument
- Disputed: controversé
- Ownership: possession
- To conceal: dissimuler
- The most powerful
- The most hotly-debated issues
- The most powerful special interest lobby groups
- far more than the country's gun control...
- at closer to three million…