1.   A year ago he was as weak and unloved a Democratic presidential candidate as it was possible to be.

2.   Alan Keyes, the only other Republican presidential candidate to participate in Louisiana, won no delegates.

3.   Before the scandal erupted, Grieg was talked about as a future presidential candidate.

4.   Bob Dole of Kansas had been a co-sponsor before resigning from the Senate this month to become a full-time Republican presidential candidate.

5.   But with the significant exception of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, few prominent Republicans have addressed those issues in recent months.

6.   Crucial tests of leadership confront the two presidential candidates.

7.   Dole appeared to be drawing a lesson from the last four presidential candidates who ousted the opposition party from the White House.

8.   For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.

9.   Forbes is an unlikely vice presidential candidate himself, partly because of his intense attacks on Dole in the early primary states.

10.   He strongly implied that part of the plan involved funneling campaign contributions to members of Congress, state officials and presidential candidates.