21.   If personality drove popularity, at that moment Clinton looked like a sure winner.

22.   It is a sure winner.

23.   It appears in the polls to be a sure winner.

24.   It pained her, but Phillips conceded that she would have preferred the Vice President choose a sure winner than a Jewish running mate.

25.   Jenkins said that he hat not voted Wednesday because he thought Ms. Messinger was a sure winner, but that he definitely would vote for her in November.

26.   Miller is generally conceded to be a sure winner in November.

27.   Naturally, not everyone would agree that Davis is the sure winner.

28.   Moreover, Atlantic City is not a sure winner.

29.   New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, as the GOP standard bearer, was seen as a sure winner.

30.   Riordan must have looked like a sure winner to the White House, which went out of its way last year to recruit him.