11.   His emphasis and that of his immediate Republican predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, have been primarily on helping the middle class rather than the underclass.

12.   How has a liberal Democratic president managed to decisively stem the massive tide of red ink that inundated the presidency of his conservative Republican predecessor?

13.   If the standards used to impeach President Clinton for those offenses were applied to his two Republican predecessors, Reagan and Bush, they would have been impeached too.

14.   It was not a look that his Republican predecessors often managed.

15.   Its Republican predecessors were consummate realists.

16.   Like its Republican predecessor, the Democratic convention begs to be treated as spectator sport, so here are a couple things to watch for.

17.   On the surface, at least, the actions of Clinton and other Democrats were as legal as those of their Republican predecessors.

18.   Roosevelt even reached out to his sometimes-maligned Republican predecessor, Herbert Hoover, inviting him to head a commission to eliminate waste and duplication throughout the bureaucracy.

19.   Seven are, like Wilson and Peltason, ex officio, the rest chosen by Wilson or his Republican predecessor, George Deukmejian.

20.   The acting governor has followed the lead of her two Republican predecessors in office by voicing strong support for abortion rights.