Do you think that that means that impressions of the economy are now secondary in this election and that the changing perception of Romney after the last debate is having a greater impact on voters?

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

But if real policy issues play only a secondary role in this election, what ought it to be about?

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The former chancellor also had advice for the current occupant of No 11 Downing Street, urging him to drop his secondary role as the Conservatives' chief political and election strategist.

BBC: David Cameron 'should learn from Thatcher not Blair'

"It is likely that the government will go into the next election having presided over an increase in secondary school class sizes during a period when the government's top priority has been education, " said the general secretary, John Dunford.

BBC: Fall in infant class sizes

Unlike earlier battlegrounds, the presidential race in Wisconsin represented something of a secondary contest, with voters there more fixated on the coming recall election for Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

WSJ: Romney Wins Wisconsin, D.C., Maryland