21.   Besides, Arizona has only eight electoral votes.

22.   A Buchanan-Ross Perot cabal would drain more votes from the GOP than from the Democrats, perhaps tipping key electoral votes.

23.   A Bush-Ridge ticket might well deliver this critical battleground, the fifth-largest state in electoral votes, to the Republicans.

24.   A free state like Pennsylvania got fewer electoral votes even though it had approximately the same free population.

25.   A look at the presidential race a year out, state by state, electoral vote by electoral vote.

26.   A narrow victory by Dole in a state counts as much as an overwhelming victory by Clinton in another state with the same number of electoral votes.

27.   A number of African-American members of Congress stormed out of the House chamber when electoral votes giving Bush the presidency were tallied in early January.

28.   A straight majority is required in both houses of Congress in order for electoral votes to be disqualified.

29.   After all, Montana has just three electoral votes, and Colorado only eight.

30.   Al Gore appears to have received the most popular votes nationwide but may well lose the contest for electoral votes.