21.  Cutting welfare and taxes, of course, are popular causes in a conservative state.

22.  Democratic consultant David Axelrod, who also is Jewish, said Lieberman could hurt Gore in the South and other conservative states.

23.  Even in a conservative state, Greenville and the surrounding upstate region are considered ultraconservative.

24.  He has a reputation as a partisan Republican from the conservative state of Arizona, yet he defies party orthodoxy on many issues.

25.  He will join the moderately conservative John W. Warner as the second Republican senator from this conservative state.

26.  His defiant nature plays well in Arizona, a conservative state with a sagebrush-rebellion mentality.

27.  In South Carolina and Virginia, two Southern conservative states won by Bush, two-thirds of the vote came from self-identified Republicans.

28.  Kerrey, a former governor, avoided the Republican backlash Tuesday to easily win re-election in a conservative state.

29.  Last year, the conservative German state of Bavaria banned Scientologists from the ranks of its civil servants.

30.  Nebraska is essentially a conservative state, yet it regularly elects Democrats at the top of the state ticket.