31.   Communist candidates also did well.

32.   Exit polls found that both candidates did well among voters who said character mattered more than positions on issues.

33.   Finding good candidates to do these thankless jobs will not be easy, which is why he has hired a headhunting firm from Washington state to scout for replacements.

34.   Finally, candidates do all sorts of things in an effort to win the presidency, from abandoning principles to wearing silly hats.

35.   For some people, neither candidate will do.

36.   For those voters, almost any other candidate will do.

37.   Fresh surveys suggested Al Gore gained a post-convention bounce as candidates usually do after their nomination when voters show an initial emotional reaction.

38.   Gov. George W. Bush went through all of the paces that a candidate usually does on Election Day.

39.   Gore also wants both candidates to do without TV ads.

40.   He had demonstrated that the public cares less about those issues than do the candidates who run on them or the preachers who raise money with them.