31.   Deputies apparently feared that a rise in prices would cause a voter backlash in parliamentary elections scheduled for December.

32.   Divisions over the civil unions law also created voter backlash that ousted six state legislators -- five Republicans who supported the law and one Democrat who opposed it.

33.   Fini rejected the suggestion, mindful of a voter backlash.

34.   Hoping to fuel a voter backlash, Florio prepared his supporters for an unprecedented get-out-the-vote drive by Corzine.

35.   Labor supported the policy because it feared a voter backlash.

36.   Neither candidate wants to risk any further voter backlash by openly going on the attack, whatever their negative ads and quote-slinging surrogates are saying elsewhere.

37.   Now, with the new voting system in place and the days of big party government over, Bolger has borne the brunt of further voter backlash.

38.   Opposition parties accused the governing party of covering up the scandal to protect itself from voter backlash.

39.   Some Gore allies worried that his persistence could create a voter backlash against future Democratic candidates.

40.   The Communist-dominated lower house, the State Duma, has been reluctant to act, fearing that unpopular bills would cause a voter backlash.