11.  Those two polls echo other recent soundings of voters in key presidential states.

12.  In an extraordinary showdown, President Clinton and his Republican nemesis, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, offer their competing views to voters in the first presidential primary state.

13.  They are also playing the election card, constantly reminding politicians that their one-million voices in the key presidential state give them powerful say.

14.  The Abkhazian parliament adopted a new constitution Saturday and unilaterally declared the republic a sovereign presidential state headed by Vladislav Ardzinba.