1.   But before the Washington state primary this year, his campaign used the trek in a political commercial.

2.   But McCain, who finished behind Bush in the Republican primaries this year, said he did not think that would happen.

3.   Coverdell was not the first choice of religious conservatives in the Republican primary that year, primarily because of his support for abortion rights.

4.   Dole managed one last, feeble effort in the days before the Illinois primary that year.

5.   In the primaries this year, Jack Kemp endorsed Steve Forbes.

6.   In the Democratic primary that year, Johnson was opposed in his re-election bid by one Dudley Dougherty, who was apparently a McCarthyite ideologue.

7.   Many states advanced their primaries this year, compressing the main part of the season into just a few weeks.

8.   Ms. Collins became the second House incumbent to lose in a primary this year.

9.   The absence of a Democratic primary this year could boost participation by crossover voters in the GOP contest.

10.   The negative advertisements he unleashed against Bob Dole in the Iowa primary that year still reverberate on the hustings.