Mr. Clinton has amassed millions for his re-election drive.

"But sometimes that doesn't have the same pull that a re-election drive does."

In effect, the anxious President had planned and won the first skirmish of his re-election drive with the opposition never firing a shot.

This put his re-election drive at $42 million and counting.

The most likely political beneficiary of the campaign against an unpopular tax is the Mayor himself, just as he begins his re-election drive.

He was slow, even, to start his re-election drive.

Mr. Gore has acknowledged making 46 fund-raising calls from his office in 1995 and 1996 to raise money for the re-election drive.

By that logic, it would make sense to permit legislators to appropriate state funds directly to their own re-election drives.

Mr. Udall said that in his re-election drive last year, he put a special focus on older voters.

He noted how the polls a year ago put him trailing by double-digits in his re-election drive.