41.   Crime is a major issue in the heated Senate campaign as Weld, a former federal prosecutor, tries to portray Kerry as soft on crime.

42.   Dole is running as deft a front-runner campaign as anyone has in decades.

43.   Eskew, who remains on the Gore campaign as senior media strategist, said Squier was an innovator to whom American politics owes a large debt.

44.   Every Republican talking head within distance of a TV camera derided his campaign as a directionless mess.

45.   Fox, however, sees the AFL-CIO campaign as part of an agenda to support only Democrats.

46.   Fox is an earthy former governor of Guanajuato who wears cowboy boots and campaigns as a free-marketeer.

47.   Gearan was the director of federal-state relations for former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and served the Dukakis presidential campaign as a national press secretary.

48.   Giuliani has described the campaign as a tough, unambiguous plan, but several people predicted unforeseen complexities and inequities.

49.   Green portrayed his two-track campaign as a typical transition for a politician looking to climb the ladder.

50.   Growers now accuse the UFW of launching the strawberry campaign as a desperation tactic.