21.   Both candidates did well.

22.   Bush did hold several meetings with top aides, as most candidates for president do.

23.   But it is not clear what he expects the other candidates to do about it at this early date.

24.   But it would have taken a mighty strong candidate to do that.

25.   But they were able to enact relatively little of it, and in this election, congressional and presidential candidates alike did their best to skitter towards the center.

26.   But when a questioner in the audience asked what the candidates would do about violent crime, Gramm let out a yelp.

27.   But there is widespread public cynicism about whether the candidates will do anything meaningful about the homeless problem after the elections this spring.

28.   But voters were equally divided over which candidate would do a better job at improving the New York economy.

29.   But with less than a month until the New Jersey primary for governor, the three candidates are doing little else.

30.   Candidates did better on the section that tested knowledge of their subject area.