31.  If the contract works in these big states, he said, Republicans have reason to hope it will work elsewhere.

32.  In a closely fought fall contest in big states like New York or California, this could pose danger to the president.

33.  In a state as big as Texas, there are plenty of caves, cracks, crevices and crannies to conceal a fortune.

34.  In other words, state workers make convenient targets for cuts, especially in big states, and cuts are occurring.

35.  In other big states, including California and Massachusetts, former Democrats may vote if they switch their registration.

36.  Last week, his party overwhelmingly lost an election in a big western state, Jalisco, and several more such elections are scheduled later in the year.

37.  Like all the big industrial states, The Empire State has too much crime, too much poverty and too little opportunity.

38.  Mack has ties to two other big states.

39.  New York has the earliest budget deadline for a big state in the nation.

40.  New Jersey had the second highest joblessness rate of any big industrial state.