21.   Both Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Bush, the Republican candidate, worked hard to energize their political bases to vote on Tuesday.

22.   A century later, they nurtured a generation of leaders borne up by a massive political base.

23.   A lawyer and former prosecutor with no previous experience in politics, Spitzer had no natural political base or core of financial supporters.

24.   A summer jobs initiative for young people, long a major foundation block of his political base, is fairly begging for additional community involvement.

25.   Allegiances to the Taliban, whose political base is Kandahar in the south, were weakest in the north.

26.   Both countries have some reservations, however, and both have prime ministers with wobbly political bases.

27.   But Dole risks losing conservative backers who constitute his political base if he goes too far.

28.   But he was also slowly accumulating an independent political base.

29.   But if Cambpell does nothing to regain his political base, his constituents will neither forgive nor forget.

30.   But Mr. Barry flatly denied he was playing to his political base, asserting that the budget was intended to attract business to all corners of the city.