21.   Presidential preference voting in the South on Tuesday may be anticlimactic, but presidential politics this year will still have a drawl.

22.   Such subsidies are popular in Iowa, which hosts the first presidential preference voting next year, and Bradley now supports ethanol subsidies.

23.   That is the first day that most states can hold presidential preference voting under party rules and past practice.

24.   The Arizona senator was also implicitly critical of the Iowa caucuses in which participants go to precinct meetings and declare their presidential preference when they sign in.

25.   The caucus voters also will fill out ballots marking their presidential preferences.

26.   The delegate-selection process prevented candidates from packing the event with supporters flown in from other states, a common tactic in other presidential preference polls.

27.   The itineraries of both candidates took them to some of the dozen key states whose presidential preferences remain in doubt.

28.   The presidential preference polls there have Gov. George W. Bush of Texas leading Vice President Al Gore by half a dozen points or more.

29.   THE POLLS STILL TOO CLOSE A new national presidential preference poll has Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore locked in a race too close to call.

30.   The pro-Bush crowd got a little cocky when their guy was racking up double-digit leads in the presidential preference polls before the Democratic National Convention.