21.   Bush headed right, hand waving, to work the crowd as if somebody was going to vote on something soon.

22.   But Giuliani learned, and these days, he works the crowds as if he loves it.

23.   But Thursday, in the shadow of the State Capitol, he was working the crowd for Gore.

24.   Clinton, looking slimmer than before his knee injury, stepped out of the car to work the crowd.

25.   Ditto at the Georgia delegation, where Bush worked the crowd after speaking.

26.   Few in sports work a crowd better than Policy, who, typically, tried to soften the occasion Thursday by opening with a joke.

27.   God help them both, working this crowd, but they could not have been slower if they were paid by the minute.

28.   Hawkers worked the crowd, selling shaved ice, straw hats and -- despite a U.S. trade embargo since May -- a choice of Pepsi or Coca-Cola.

29.   He hopped from table to table, working the crowd like a Kennedy the day before an election.

30.   He and his wife, Kathy, worked the crowds at the state Democratic Convention earlier this month, and last week he made the rounds of Sacramento legislators.