21.   Republican statewide candidates are learning to hold their tongues on race matters.

22.   She will be a formidable statewide candidate for the Democrats some day, but how soon?

23.   Sharp has refused to endorse Mauro or any other statewide Democratic candidate.

24.   So it is obviously crucial for any statewide Republican candidate to hold every vote in his partisan base.

25.   Statewide candidates who raise modest qualifying funds receive public funding for the rest of their campaigns, within agreed-upon spending limits.

26.   Statewide candidates would receive significant subsidies, and legislative candidates would get money only if their opponents exceeded spending limits.

27.   That creates a ready-made list of potential statewide candidates.

28.   The Conservative Party historically has been as critical to statewide Republican candidates as the Liberal has been to Democrats.

29.   The limits would be in effect throughout the four-year election cycle for statewide candidates, and two years for legislative candidates.

30.   The rough-and-tumble campaigns waged by most statewide candidates who resorted to negative ads and personal attacks also may have turned off many potential voters.