61.   For weeks, political observers and Republican leaders have been calling him vulnerable.

62.   Forget that few Haitian political observers have heard of him and that most predict Jean Bertrand Aristide will steamroll his way back into office.

63.   From outside Afghanistan, political observers said, she pushed for progress inside the country.

64.   For weeks, political observers have described the election as less a battle with Fong than a referendum on Boxer.

65.   He continues to support her, but the decision is a tricky one, state political observers say.

66.   He has been faulted, in turn, by political observers for seeming less skilled than Clinton in defending ambitious Clinton-Gore fund-raising techniques.

67.   He and other minority political observers believe it is unfair to bar ex-convicts from voting.

68.   He has achieved what political observers would have told you two weeks ago is impossible.

69.   Her problems, several political observers say, are twofold.