81.   Many members of Congress who have crusaded for budget-tightening in the abstract have discovered that voters actually want spending to continue on popular programs.

82.   Like Clinton, the voters themselves want a balanced budget on Monday, Medicare protected on Tuesday and a mushy compromise on Wednesday.

83.   Missing will be two presidential candidates whom voters overwhelmingly wanted to see on stage with Bush and Gore.

84.   Most voters want abortion to be rare but not outlawed.

85.   Most House Republicans interpret their smashing election victory as a clear sign that voters want to cut spending and end business as usual.

86.   New Hampshire voters do not want an income or sales tax, and none of the candidates want to become the elected officials who give voters one.

87.   Now, just four years later, Bob Dole is promising a tax cut and the voters apparently want no part of it.

88.   No one has figured out that angry voters want a lot more than a contract, an end to gridlock, or even more tax cuts.

89.   Often, such polls find that voters want their elected officials to stay put and govern rather than take up the chase after that most elusive of political goals.

90.   One answer is that the voters want it.