1.   Asked about the support for Gore in Pennsylvania, Terry Madonna, a political analyst at Millersville University, said the vice president was simply losing the personality contest.

2.   For Christopher Matthews, Washington bureau chief for The San Francisco Examiner, the rivalry between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon was no simple personality contest.

3.   Having prepared herself for a celebrity personality contest, Mrs. Clinton may now have to talk far more about issues.

4.   He also said that if the race came down to a personality contest, Bill Clinton would win.

5.   If the Democratic presidential race turns into a personality contest, the smart money will be scouring the countryside for a write-in candidate.

6.   In a strict personality contest, the younger, more ebullient Clinton comes across best on the campaign trail.

7.   Personality contests get in the way of the real thing.

8.   Pollsters rarely measure the degree to which presidential campaigns are a personality contest.

9.   Election also is personality contest between rotund, fatherly Kohl and slicker, younger Schroeder.

10.   Gore had closed his campaign by admitting he might not win any personality contest.