41.   Mauro will get a chance to energize Texas Democrats this weekend when the party holds its state convention in San Antonio.

42.   McCain wants his party to hold the votes of Bible Belt Republicans without following their every dictate on policy.

43.   No party now holds a majority in Congress, which was elected, like Fox, in July.

44.   Parties held post-election news conferences but had nothing to announce.

45.   Party officials are squabbling over where the party will hold its August national convention.

46.   Parties may not hold conventions or rallies or field candidates for office.

47.   Powers, who encouraged Giuliani to announce last year, said the mayor has to say something official by June, when the state party holds its convention.

48.   Perhaps most worrying for the Liberal Democrats were the hints that Japan might be moving toward a Western-style system in which two political parties alternately hold power.

49.   Republican and Democratic-Farmer-Labor leaders insist their parties are holding their own and are raising ample money through other means, like direct mail.

50.   Saturday, the leftist party held angry demonstrations in several cities around the state, including the capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez.