I've experienced this problem in 1.4 and 1.5beta.
When I'm in icon-mode, and there are many items (buildings, advertisements, and/or operatives) in a given state, if I try to select that given state, I can't. Instead it selects one of the items in the state. I click a spot that appears to be empty with soem empty space around it, and it still selects the item, rather than the state.
My computer is slow and either runs out of virtual memory or does run out when I near the end of a race, so it would be helpful to run icons-only. But I can't run the campaign if I can't check the polling data in the states with the most commotion.
Thanks for this forum and for reading my problem.