Election issues aren't what you probably think they are... You probably have it backwards in your head. An anachronism left over from when we all still believed

Election issues aren't what you probably think they are... You probably have it backwards in your head. An anachronism left over from when we all still believed the 4th estate of news media existed to educate the electorate. Everything about "election issues" is jerrymandered and bought and paid for. What I think you mean, in a modern context, is "Our right to privacy needs to the straw man for a number of groups whose continued income and existence is directly tied to a certain point of view. They need to be large enough and wealthy enough to lobby this point of view on my behalf using tools such as PACs, PR releases to news media, and polls designed to prove the issue can be leveraged for the purpose of electing a candidate."