51.   Even strategists for the Democratic campaigns in New Jersey and Virginia said it would be a stretch to link candidates to national themes.

52.   Evidently enraged by the tone of the Christian Democratic campaign, Schroeder implicitly likened the Christian Democrats to the Nazis last week.

53.   Fazio, the Democratic campaign leader in the House, said the Republican document had helped the Democrats by turning the election debate back toward Democratic issues.

54.   Federal investigators have traced a small amount of that money to Democratic campaigns.

55.   Feingold was one of just a few Democrats to join Republicans in calling for an independent counsel to investigate alleged Democratic campaign finance abuses.

56.   For the police, the primary focus was the president, who was in town to raise money for Democratic congressional campaigns.

57.   For them, the Democratic advertising campaign that pictured the GOP as sinister plotters against Medicare and abortion rights, was a bullet that barely missed.

58.   For years, Republicans were on the defensive, battered by Democratic campaigns accusing them of plotting to cut Social Security or Medicare.

59.   Four years later, the Democratic campaign added a new wrinkle to the post-convention tour.

60.   He did not stump for candidates at massive rallies and was mere background noise in most Democratic campaigns.