11.   Some of them, in fact, seem to be appealing directly to an anti-intellectual strain that political scientists have long identified in the American electorate.

12.   That would reassure the American electorate that the outcome of the presidential election is based on a full and fair count, albeit under imperfect conditions.

13.   That is precisely what happened to Jeffords as Bush pulled his conservative bait-and-switch with the American electorate after running as a moderate.

14.   The American electorate has been called many things from the pulpit and in editorial pages.

15.   The American electorate is far less ideological than it once was and seems far less patient with sharply partisan appeals.

16.   The campaigns also perceive a post-partisan, even post-political, dimension in the American electorate.

17.   The commission, however, is rigorously bipartisan and has as its sole client the American electorate.

18.   The memo says that a fiscally conservative, socially liberal candidate running as an independent would represent the vast middle of the American electorate.

19.   The Republican and Democratic candidates begin their head-to-head competition for the approval of the American electorate.

20.   The step forward was to capture the imagination of the American electorate.