| Earmark | Senator / Senate | Strategy / Strategic | Middle Class | Security |
| Science | Back from the brink | Election | Debt | Retirement |
| Touch base | Unprecedented | 2008 BARACK OBAMA BINGO (free square) | Relief for working families | Win-win |
| Fannie / Freddie | Out of the loop | Loophole[s] | Campaign | Terrorists / Terrorism |
| War | Mortgage | Afghanistan | Make no mistake | Free market |