No less incendiary amongst the populace than many other "hot button" issues of the day, "fracking" – or hydraulic fracturing of the earth's surface to acquire gas, a practice that mostly takes place in remote parts of the country – has been (i)____________ the national dialogue come election time, perhaps because voters are typically (ii)____________ environmental problems that do not occur in their own backyards, so to speak. A. unfairly tarnished in B. misinformed about C. a prominent theme in D. worked up over E. curiously absent from F. unmoved by