11.   At least so speculate the bored journalists, the Clinton aides who are nervous or superstitious and, most fervent of all, the Dole campaign officials.

12.   At Bush headquarters in Austin, campaign officials said Florida lawmakers are doing what they think is necessary during a period of uncertainty.

13.   At Dole headquarters in a downtown Washington hotel, campaign officials were silent.

14.   Baird campaign officials said Baird opposes same-sex marriage.

15.   Before the disputed Florida election ever reaches the point of litigation, campaign officials said, they will try to win the vote outright for Vice President Al Gore.

16.   Both McCain and Bush campaign officials in California all but dismissed the Buchanan move Monday as insignificant to their campaigns and the GOP.

17.   Bradley campaign officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday night on the endorsement.

18.   A Gore campaign official said the vice president has spent slightly lower amounts in most of those states.

19.   A Bush campaign official declined comment on pending litigation.

20.   A campaign official told the newspaper Izvestia that negligent bank clerks had somehow failed to report the money properly.