1.   And that will likely be just fine with suburban parents who have opposed vouchers in polls and recent state referendums.

2.   A state referendum would likely do little to determine that.

3.   But voters have rejected almost every state gambling referendum in the past three years, stymieing expansion.

4.   Feldman proposes that bonds for any future prison construction program be put up for vote in a state referendum.

5.   Minnick has run a string of campaign advertisements on the issue, and his cause may be helped by a state referendum on the agreement.

6.   Meanwhile, several Republican congressmen Wednesday introduced a bill that would limit the power of federal courts in overturn state referendums in such matters.

7.   One particularly popular nominee is Ralph Nader, who backed a state referendum that theoretically could have discouraged investment in new power plant construction.

8.   Owens, once an adamant foe of gun control, backs passage of a state referendum that would require background checks of people who buy weapons at gun shows.

9.   One would require a three-judge panel, instead of one judge, to review any constitutional challenge to state referendums passed by voters.

10.   Republicans pursued the issue relentlessly, giving it an ever-higher priority as it proved vastly popular in state referendums.