Possible Clues:

• Batter's decision not to bunt?
• Republican abandons unusually strong view — a potential election winner
• Style of jazz heard in the house produced by a select crowd that can go either way?
• Target for many a political ad
• Independent's ballot, at times
• Democratic way to decide which rocking device is best?
• Election decider, perhaps
• Figure in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision
• Make-or-break election bloc