31.   Both men were experienced political operatives, having participated in several Democratic campaigns and were initially depicted inaccurately by the White House as low-level bureaucrats.

32.   Both Republican and Democratic campaigns generated headlines, not with daring ideas or stirring rhetoric, but by jettisoning their top political strategists.

33.   But after questions about Democratic campaign finances arose, the party returned hundreds of thousands of donations solicited by Huang.

34.   But Al Gore angered labor leaders last month with his appointment of William Daley to head his Democratic campaign for president.

35.   But as the Democratic campaign has gone negative, so have the Web sites.

36.   But for Gore this trip has been further complicated by questions back home about Democratic campaign finances.

37.   But it has sparked the sharpest debate yet in the Democratic campaign, and polls show that voters are likely to make it a general election issue.

38.   But Robert Squier, a veteran Democratic campaign consultant, thinks it hints at the truth.

39.   But some Republican operatives are convinced that the White House scandal is having at least an indirect effect on Democratic campaigns.

40.   But the teacher unions overwhelmingly endorse more Democratic candidates, contribute to more Democratic campaigns and exert much more power within the Democratic Party.