1.   The Socialist candidate beat the Liberal in a straight fight.

2.   This was widely considered essential to their chances of securing the office over the Socialist candidate.

3.   Not a single Socialist candidate managed to do so.

4.   But this spurt was so sudden that it may be reversible or even repeatable by the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin.

5.   Debs ran for president five times as the Socialist candidate.

6.   Even the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, has taken pains not to seem eager for an endorsement from Mitterrand.

7.   He is currently in second place with Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin a close third.

8.   In Chile and Uruguay, Socialist presidential candidates doing well in the polls are running as moderates.

9.   Just below the Gore-Lieberman punch-hole on the butterfly design is the punch-hole for Socialist candidate David McReynolds.

10.   Lionel Jospin, the Socialist candidate, has been swapping second place with Balladur in the public opinion polls for a month.