1.  If as the government says, performance is the test of success, most state chairmen should have little to fear.

2.  And Attorney General Grant Woods, who started out the year as the Dole state chairman, but has since been shunted aside.

3.  And little wonder, too, that now the Democratic state chairman, Terrie Brady, has resigned.

4.  Another Republican state chairman, Mike Francis of Louisiana, called outright for change at the top of the party.

5.  Another prominent Republican who lost a place on the Dole delegation was Fred Meyer, the most recent state party chairman.

6.  As Baker left the briefing room here, he winked at the state Republican Party chairman, Al Cardenas, who flashed a thumbs-up in return.

7.  Arizonan Rick Tompkins, former state party chairman, is among the top presidential contenders.

8.  As state chairman, Parksy is in charge of the grassroots part of the effort.

9.  At least three Democrats, Nancy Pelosi of California, Bart Gordon of Tennessee and David Price of North Carolina, have been state party chairmen.

10.  At one point some Republican leaders were so certain of victory here that state party chairman Al Cardenas predicted that Gore would abandon the state by Labor Day.