41.   In the months before the election, Republicans and Democrats identified likely sympathetic voters who might want to vote absentee, and sent them applications for absentee ballots.

42.   In spite of this divided opposition vote, most opinion polls show that Fox and Labastida are in a dead heat now among likely voters.

43.   Increasingly, however, pollsters use their own judgment as to what the pool of likely voters should look like.

44.   In the Quinnipiac poll, likely voters are registered voters who said they definitely planned to vote next week and also voted last year in the presidential election.

45.   It had a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points among registered voters and plus or minus four percentage points among likely voters.

46.   Its viewers are universally considered to be a cornucopia of likely voters.

47.   It would be easy to suspect that the mayor was merely throwing bones to likely voters.

48.   Likely voters were defined as registered voters who said they would vote in November.

49.   Likely New Hampshire Republican voters favored Bush.