1.   I served as finance chairman of his successful gubernatorial races.

2.   And in the gubernatorial race, Peter Vallone, the New York City Council speaker, will face Charles Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney.

3.   And last Tuesday, Swift, the acting governor of Massachusetts, surprised fellow Republicans from Boston to the White House by bowing out of the gubernatorial race.

4.   As for other gubernatorial races, PRI candidates are leading comfortably in Campeche, Sonora, San Luis Potosi and Colima.

5.   As in Texas, crime was a major issue in gubernatorial races nationwide.

6.   At stop after stop, it was obvious that supporters and reporters had more than the gubernatorial race in mind.

7.   At one point Bush lamely said that Gov. Ann Richards, his opponent during his first gubernatorial race, got more Enron money than he did.

8.   A spokeswoman for the Times said the newspaper would publish an endorsement in the gubernatorial race on Sunday.

9.   A year later, in the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Gross swung his support to Cahill, then a little-known congressman from southern New Jersey.

10.   Acting Governor Jane Swift, who pulled out of the gubernatorial race in mid-March, has spent the past few months studiously receding from public view.