21.   Still, Mrs. Clinton kept to a schedule that would have been considered heavy even for a declared candidate entering the final week of a difficult contest.

22.   Strategists for Forbes and Alexander were leery about the pledge and its implications since neither man is a declared candidate and the primary schedule is still in flux.

23.   Still, the gathering of every declared GOP candidate foreshadows the upcoming campaign.

24.   The declared candidates have all been active in New York politics for years without ever setting the world on fire.

25.   The declared candidates include City Council speaker Peter Vallone, Comptroller Alan Hevesi, Public Advocate Mark Green, and Bronx borough President Fernando Ferrer.

26.   The only other publicly declared candidate for the job is Eisuke Sakakibara, a former vice finance minister of Japan.

27.   The other declared candidates are podium fodder.

28.   The three declared candidates likely will need the money.

29.   The United States does not have another declared candidate.

30.   There are six declared candidates for the leadership, four men and two women.