1.   In an uncontested GOP primary, for example, Republicans could cross over en mass to cast Democratic ballots for followers of extremist Lyndon LaRouche.

2.   In Kansas, state law allows party committees to make unlimited contributions to statewide candidates during general election campaigns or uncontested primaries.

3.   No doubt there are also strains between the two over their disastrous failure to deliver an uncontested primary to Bush.

4.   Party leaders, who had hoped to treat Dole to an uncontested primary, went all out to guarantee a victory for the Senate leader.

5.   Union members took advantage of a lower-than-usual interest in the uncontested Democratic primaries and snared a huge block of seats.