He is confident that he will be the Democratic standard-bearer and New York's next mayor.

Not since the gallant campaign of Hubert Humphrey in 1968 have Americans met a Democratic standard-bearer whom we would like to have home to dinner.

Couldn't the Democratic standard-bearer use a William McKinley front-porch strategy, talking only to those who bother to show up at his front porch?

Mr. Bush said they would "tell the truth" about the Democratic standard-bearer, Michael S. Dukakis.

But these analysts also think that conservative white Democrats can be wooed back to a national Democratic standard-bearer.

Al Gore, the Democratic standard-bearer, ran on "prosperity and progress."

Had he sought his party's nomination for the presidency in 1992, Mario Cuomo would in all likelihood have become the Democratic standard-bearer.

Indeed, for nearly 40 years the conservative movement has defined itself in opposition to the Democratic standard-bearer of 1972.

Geoffrey Fieger, the newly selected Democratic standard-bearer in the Michigan governor's race, is the latest candidate to portray himself as an "anti-politician."

Adlai Stevenson, the two-time Democratic standard-bearer, once huffed - Nixon embraced them.