11.   It carries an aura of respect and makes the main opposition candidate look even more of an outsider.

12.   Already, the bombings have produced a shift in opinion polls toward the Israeli opposition candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, who stresses the security risks of peace.

13.   An opposition candidate, Vicente Fox Quesada, was virtually tied in the polls with the nominee of the governing party, Francisco Labastida Ochoa.

14.   And analysts say limiting interviews to urban populations is more likely to produce results favoring opposition party candidates.

15.   As a result, many opposition candidates campaign at night, traveling door to door under cover of darkness to spread the party message.

16.   As the vote nears, Zedillo is leading opposition presidential candidates Diego Fernandez de Cevallos and Cuauhtemoc Cardenas by a comfortable margin in polls.

17.   At polling places across the country, several opposition candidates said their agents were prevented from monitoring the balloting.

18.   Avendano was the leading opposition candidate for governor in elections in August, and lost to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate, Eduardo Robledo.

19.   At the weekend rallies of the opposition candidates, their supporters expressed what increasingly seems a national distrust of the ruling party.

20.   A leftist opposition candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, is set to become mayor of the huge capital city by a wide margin.