21.   Chronicle political reporter Carla Marinucci contributed to this report.

22.   Curtis Wilkie, a political reporter for The Boston Globe who was helping McDougal with his memoirs, was one of the last to leave the cemetery.

23.   David Broder, also of the Post, surely is the incomparable political reporter of our age.

24.   Each candidate is scheduled to make opening and closing statements and to answer questions posed by WMUR political reporter Carl Cameron.

25.   Eyes glazed by dull debates over tax cuts and deficit spending, most political reporters prefer to hunt down pollsters and cover the campaign like a horse race.

26.   For example, Jason Bellini, a former political reporter for MTV, is now at CNN doing war coverage that appears on both networks.

27.   For his part, as he joked with political reporters in Sacramento on Monday, Bradley took heart from the underdog performance of his old team.

28.   Frans Roennov, political reporter, Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen.

29.   Further cuts by the networks squeezed down their own political teams and jettisoned experienced political reporters.

30.   Further, this year the primary season was compressed, Beschloss noted, leaving political reporters with less fodder before the conventions in late summer.