Equally, any honest Democrat will admit that we are now all Friedmanites.

Democrats admitted that the unresolved budget had eaten into their plans to focus on other things.

Polls show that three out of five adult Democrats admit to having had a Republican experience.

And most Democrats admit that it will take a powerful candidate to defeat either one.

That is earlier than the illegal foreign contributions that the Democrats have admitted receiving, which came mainly in 1994 and 1995.

So far the Republicans have been noncommittal, and even some Democrats admit that possibility is in doubt.

The Democrats have admitted that they, too, shuffled money from their Senate election committee to local races.

The ads are actually far more sophisticated than the Democrats admit.

Top Democrats admit privately that there is merit to those complaints, and have begun negotiations to try to cool the partisan tensions.

Privately, several Democrats who declared themselves against Nafta admit that the agreement would probably help the country, if not their constituents.