31.   In a brisk swing through Michigan and Ohio, Vice President Al Gore cheerfully campaigned Friday as much for the local Democratic candidates as for himself and President Clinton.

32.   In ad after ad, Democrats portrayed Republicans candidates as handmaidens to House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

33.   Imagine this candidate as a man.

34.   In a campaign like this, it seems risky to identify your candidate as any kind or part of a horse.

35.   In private conversation, they speak of other candidates as Dole, or Alexander, or Forbes.

36.   In recent weeks, the search committee, through informal consensus, had essentially focused on three other candidates as finalists.

37.   In the New York, the national Republican Party ran television ads that portrayed the Democratic congressional candidate as having a history of voting for tax increases.

38.   Indeed, so far both major gubernatorial campaigns have tried to portray their candidate as pro-family, responsible leaders with the experience to take over state government.

39.   It may simply be that Iowa, long treated by candidates as the first meaningful contest of the season, may not be so pivotal any longer.

40.   It took all the resources and connections of the former vice-president to stave off the challenge from even as improbable a candidate as Hart.