31.   Bush said if elected president he wants to change the fundamental relationship between the federal government and the states on education issues.

32.   Bush is touring some key battleground states on his way from Texas to Philadelphia, the site of the Republican National Convention.

33.   Bush was able to claim much of the South, while Gore captured the largest states on both coasts.

34.   Bush said Texas officials are keeping an eye on a forest fire in Tamaulipas, a Mexican state on the Texas border.

35.   Buchanan performed more strongly in Massachusetts than some other states on Tuesday, partly because of the strength of the jobs issue, according to the exit polls.

36.   But Catholic officials said they could not recall another instance in which several bishops joined to issue guidelines for their state on this issue.

37.   But Netanyahu has long declared his opposition to such a state on security grounds and his election deeply damaged the trust that had been created.

38.   But perhaps the most far-reaching result of the elections held in six states on Sunday was the strong showing of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN.

39.   But it is not just the go-go states on the coasts that are in trouble.

40.   But the electorate in this state on Tuesday was far different than four years ago.