1.   A third presidential candidate emerged to mount a serious challenge and throw the campaign wide open.

2.   Several possible candidates have emerged.

3.   And one Republican House member this week conceded that if an alternative candidate had emerged earlier this month, Gingrich would not now be speaker.

4.   And with piano lessons, once a norm for American children, replaced by soccer and MTV, fewer candidates have emerged for the next generation of organists.

5.   As a result, the competition there is for a candidate to emerge with a strong second.

6.   As one election builds upon the last, losers run out of money, drop out and one candidate emerges from the pack, amassing a majority.

7.   But no dominant candidate has emerged, and none of the possible candidates have run statewide before.

8.   But over the last week or so, another candidate is emerging who may turn out to be the best of the bunch.

9.   Even if one candidate emerges with a clear command of policy, one wonders if a good debater is necessarily a good president.

10.   He added that he did not expect any new Republican candidates to emerge for the nomination.