31.  Echoing many others interviewed, Rendell, the Democratic chairman, said he was especially distressed because it was an uphill struggle to reverse an opinion on appeal.

32.  Even Thomas Giblin, the outgoing state Democratic chairman, said Schundler should not be underestimated.

33.  Four years ago, President Bush openly admitted he preferred dealing with foreign leaders to dickering with Democratic congressional chairmen over budget and tax matters.

34.  Franks also came under attack Monday from the incoming state Democratic chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Roberts Jr. of Camden.

35.  He has a long-running feud with the Bronx Democratic chairman, Roberto Ramirez, a former assemblyman who still has influence in Albany.

36.  Her father, John M. Bailey, was the national Democratic chairman under President Kennedy.

37.  His great-grandfather was a Republican state senator but his grandfather was a Democratic state chairman in Iowa.

38.  Ickes said he had asked the Democratic national chairman, Donald L. Fowler, to analyze what the Republican National Committee had done in the past.

39.  If the Senate were unable to pass a new organizing resolution, the committees would revert to their makeup in the previous Congress, though with Democratic chairmen.

40.  In recent years, Genovesi had become a strong political opponent of Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr., the Brooklyn Democratic chairman.