11.   Fernando Ferrer, not pictured, and Mark Green, right, were locked in a virtual dead heat going into the Democratic runoff.

12.   In a Democratic runoff this year, a previously favored Senate candidate who suggested calling out the military to halt illegal immigrants lost even El Paso County.

13.   In the Democratic runoff, Taylor called Oliver soft on crime, but he admitted early on in the campaign to past cocaine use.

14.   Kirk, the former Dallas mayor who defeated schoolteacher Victor Morales in a Democratic runoff on Tuesday, disagreed that he would be a regular voice against Bush.

15.   Largely drowned out by the Democratic runoff between Corzine and Jim Florio, Franks did not emerge from his contest a household name.

16.   LOTT CHALLENGER SELECTED In a Mississippi Democratic runoff election Tuesday, Troy Brown defeated Rickey Cole by a wide margin.

17.   Most of all, Bloomberg has aggressively pursued supporters of Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president who lost the Democratic runoff to Green.

18.   Now that the Democratic mayoral primary runoff is over, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is making it clear that he meant what he said about wanting to stay.

19.   Only Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president who is facing Green in the Democratic runoff, was willing to stand up to the mayor.

20.   Silver said that he had not made a decision on the issue, adding that nothing would be done before the Democratic runoff.