21.   Republican officials brush off any projections of significant Democratic gains, contending that more Republicans are elected as governor these days because voters prefer them.

22.   Rice said he also now believes voters sometimes prefer candidates with no records.

23.   Recent public opinion surveys find that voters prefer investing time and money in conservation and the search for cleaner-burning fuels than in drilling for more oil.

24.   Some Democrats are rooting for Schundler, figuring that most New Jersey voters will prefer a more centrist Democratic candidate to even an articulate spokesman of the far right.

25.   Some members of the Bush family seemed amazed that voters might prefer Clinton or Perot over a man with such a long and distinguished political resume.

26.   Such critiques are not likely to dent the faith that Bush and his advisers have in polls showing that voters prefer lofty, positive generalities to bitter partisan wrangling.

27.   The ballyhooed debate tour is a way to gauge whether voters prefer a flat tax or sales tax.

28.   The voters preferred de la Rua, who promised to halt corruption and end the impunity of the politically well connected from prosecution.

29.   Voters would prefer to pick and chose on this and that.

30.   What voters would understandably prefer is for him to try to be the Economy Governor.