31.   Gallagher counted on the deep concerns that some senior Republican Party leaders had that McCollum was too conservative to win a statewide race.

32.   From president and governor to treasurer and secretary of state, even low-profile statewide races are shaping up as potential fights for every vote.

33.   Growing Hispanic political activism in California could be decisive in key elections this year, analysts said Wednesday after primaries moved Latino candidates into almost half the statewide races.

34.   Giuliani denies any such intent but carefully does not rule out a statewide race.

35.   Having run for statewide office four times, he was better known in Florida than McCollum, who was in his first statewide race.

36.   He remains the only Conservative candidate ever to have won a statewide race without the Republican line.

37.   He surely goes into the campaign next year with political strengths, but both statewide races are likely to be more lively than a potentially soporific mayoral race.

38.   He topped a GOP ticket that, with about half the precincts reporting, was within a hair of sweeping all statewide races.

39.   Historically, though, New York women lose statewide races.

40.   I have never seen such a national attack in a statewide race.