31.   Gore still has steadfast supporters who argue that he is far more popular among voters outside Washington than inside the Beltway.

32.   Gore will have advisers, but he will not need a minder.

33.   Gore already has a chief pollster, Mark Penn, who also did polling for President Clinton.

34.   Gore also has a lot of political strength among organized labor and African-Americans.

35.   Gore also has a plan to eliminate the national debt.

36.   Gore certainly has a Clinton-immorality problem.

37.   Gore does have a tendency to be patronizing and to exaggerate.

38.   Gore had a message for Aetna.

39.   Gore had eight tables to go when campaign aides, tapping their watches, nudged him away.

40.   Gore had no comment Monday on the Lieberman rebuke of Clinton, a spokesman said.