21.   In its own separate proxy mailing, Mid-Atlantic Investors asked shareholders to adopt its proposal to value the company and to elect three candidates nominated by the Mid-Atlantic.

22.   In the past six years, only five candidates got elected.

23.   It is a parting of the waters between traditional politics of negotiation, arm-twisting and deals and principled politics on which a candidate is elected and power is exercised.

24.   It is commonplace for corporations, unions or interested millionaires to give hundreds of thousands of dollars each to help elect a candidate.

25.   It takes a majority of those who vote for a candidate to elect a candidate.

26.   Loomis said the conservative wing of the Republican Party also could benefit in getting its candidates elected because committed constituencies turn out and vote.

27.   Meanwhile, supporters of abortion rights say they are focusing on helping to elect pro-choice candidates in the upcoming House and Senate elections.

28.   Most of his energy will go to helping elect congressional candidates who have been clamoring to have McCain appear with them.

29.   No other party has allowed its grassroots so much power to elect its candidate.

30.   No Doubt II, but democratic decision-making is inevitably messy and when it gets down to cases, voters elect candidates, not issues.