21.   With a booming economy and a lack of major controversies, voters in Wisconsin maintained the status quo, re-electing all congressional incumbents.

22.   With the election looming next week, congressional incumbents will now face the voters as failures who flunked their legislative responsibility to keep the federal government running properly.

23.   The move is part of a new Bush strategy to cement his relations with congressional incumbents and organizations in key battleground states, Bush senior advisers said.