1.   A self-described social moderate, Mitnick supports abortion rights, opposes mandatory school prayer and favors the ban on assault weapons.

2.   According to a newly released survey, Maricopa County residents overwhelmingly favor a ban on racial and gender preferences in state programs in Arizona.

3.   Britain and France are said to favor a ban and would probably go along if the United States took the lead.

4.   Both Gore and McCain favor a ban on the largely unregulated political contributions known as soft money.

5.   Bush favors a ban on all human cloning, whether to make a human baby or for research on potentially lifesaving therapies.

6.   Bush has not joined that pledge, though he favors a ban on such contributions.

7.   But polls consistently show that voters overwhelmingly favor the ban.

8.   Early in the campaign the Texas governor said he would favor a ban on soft-money donations to political parties by corporations and unions.

9.   Even though the speaker has been generally supportive of gun rights, he said he favored a ban on some assault weapons, which angered the rifle group.

10.   Four-fifths of the American people and the police officers who protect them favor that ban.