11.   For now, curiosities abound in the role reversal of the two parties since the Republican electoral sweep last fall.

12.   Gore hopes to avert a Republican sweep of the South by focusing time, energy and money in both Florida and Georgia, Black said.

13.   His coattails enabled a Republican sweep of every statewide office and every statewide judicial post.

14.   His thin line of support in Congress seems destined to vanish in a Republican sweep of the fall elections.

15.   However, Morley is suddenly salivating at the prospect of a Republican clean sweep in November.

16.   It was disheartening, even embarrassing, given all the pre-election bluster about a possible Republican sweep.

17.   Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas insurance commissioner, was one of the two Democrats who defied the Republican sweep of statewide offices last year.

18.   One of the last of the red-hot liberals, Illinois Sen. Paul Simon, voluntarily became the first Democratic casualty of the conservative Republican congressional sweep this month.

19.   Potentially symbolic as affirmation or repudiation of the national Republican sweep last year, the election has drawn the interest and financial support of both national political parties.

20.   Pollsters and analysts tell us that anger against self-aggrandizing officialdom was a key reason for the Republican sweep.