11.   Democrats fear a congressional election decided on national issues, because voters prefer Republicans when they are thinking in a national frame of mind.

12.   Even in close presidential elections, voters still prefer to give a few more seats to the other party.

13.   German voters evidently preferred him simply because they were tired of Kohl.

14.   Gingrich, who looks in the mirror as much as anyone, has realized that American voters prefer their presidents to seize the middle ground rather than the extremes.

15.   He was responding to a question about the so-called gender gap, in which polls show female voters prefer Clinton to Dole by a margin of two to one.

16.   His research also found that voters prefer candidates who solicit donations from supporters rather than dip into their personal wealth.

17.   In their hearts, many voters would prefer results rather than confrontation to provide more fodder for campaign commercials.

18.   Naive as it sounds, we think voters would prefer results to further posturing.

19.   Republicans will continue to argue that voters would prefer tax cuts above all else.

20.   Recent public opinion surveys find that voters prefer investing time and money in conservation and finding cleaner burning fuels than drilling for more oil.