1.   And few elected Democrats are willing to make trouble for their popular governor.

2.   And the popular Republican governor, who had talked about running for a third term and was favored to beat Kennedy, said he wanted the job.

3.   And the popular governor happened to be the younger brother of the Republican nominee.

4.   A few years later, his mother married Hughes, who went on to become a popular New Jersey governor and state Supreme Court chief justice.

5.   A popular Democratic senator and a popular Republican governor remained in office.

6.   A veteran Democrat, incumbent Charles Robb, is facing a popular former Republican governor, George Allen.

7.   After eight years as a popular governor, this clearly was not the way George Voinovich wanted to spend his final days in the statehouse.

8.   Bush seems to be getting much less of a lift than might have been expected from the fact that his brother, Jeb, is the popular governor here.

9.   But a popular governor such as Barnes voicing even general support for a higher driving age is enough to significantly increase its credibility.

10.   Bush inherited the bad with the good when he defeated a popular Democratic governor, Ann Richards.