81.   Even before she declared her intentions, two independent polls in June and July showed her in a virtual dead heat with Rowland.

82.   Elsewhere in the country, her colleagues report, print and cursive are in a virtual dead heat.

83.   Even so, a recent Orlando Sentinel opinion poll shows the race in Florida is a dead heat, with Clinton one point ahead of Dole.

84.   Fernando Ferrer, right, and Mark Green, not pictured, were locked in a virtual dead heat going into the Democratic runoff.

85.   Fernando Ferrer, center, and Mark Green, not pictured, were locked in a virtual dead heat going into the Democratic runoff.

86.   Fernando Ferrer, not pictured, and Mark Green, right, were locked in a virtual dead heat going into the Democratic runoff.

87.   Fifteen minutes after that three-way tie, Penn and Yale rowed to a dead heat in the heavyweight final.

88.   For another, if you take the polling evidence state by state, rather than nationally, the race looks like a dead heat.

89.   For example, they point to the Iowa straw poll conducted last year in which Texas Sen. Phil Gramm finished in a dead heat with front-runner Bob Dole.

90.   First the institute matched the Democratic contenders, Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley, and found them in a dead heat.