21. California, Florida, Texas and other big states are looking closely at the Massachusetts system.
22. Call it the fire wall, the big state where Al Gore and George W. Bush must stop any serious challenge to their presumptive nominations for president.
23. California, New York and Illinois, the big states in their respective regions, voted more like each other than their smaller neighbors.
24. Democrats had the governorships of all the big states except California.
25. Gore carried both big states easily.
26. He can go for a governor of a big state he must carry to win.
27. He cited travel costs and the fear of big states that they would have no influence because they would have come last.
28. He ended up as the press secretary for the attorney general in a big Eastern state.
29. He comes from a big state, Texas.
30. I For big states, that can amount to hundreds of millons of dollars more than they would have received under the old system.