21.   Both candidates won handily, avoiding runoffs in crowded fields.

22.   Both candidates won support at first simply because they were not the tax-and-spend Democratic incumbents.

23.   Both candidates won.

24.   A candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election.

25.   A candidate wins delegates in most states equivalent to his or her percentage of the popular vote in primaries.

26.   A more conservative candidate won the primary but lost to Ms. Capps this month.

27.   All the other candidates won the votes mainly by pledging to promote their regional economies by introducing advanced management and organizational knowhow of private sectors.

28.   Allen, for instance, said he was hoping to get the White House assignment no matter which candidate won.

29.   Bush campaign officials believe that the Republican candidate will win the majority of the absentee ballots.

30.   But Andrews said he believed that his candidate would win the primary, based on the case she has made against Giuliani on television.