If this were America, the candidates would have already crisscrossed the country and spent tens of millions of dollars on their campaigns.

Although the candidates have crisscrossed the district and plastered the South Bronx with their campaign posters, this Council race is marked by relatively low spending.

Now, centrist and conservative candidates are crisscrossing Brazil, trying to play catch-up before the first round of the nation's presidential elections on Oct. 3.

With the election so close and so much at stake, the candidates have been crisscrossing the state in recent weeks.

The candidates crisscrossed the country and actively wooed blocs of voters.

We ask because the two candidates have been crisscrossing the city lately like strangers in a strange land.

Although all four candidates are frantically crisscrossing this vast country, much of the campaign is being conducted on television.

On Tuesday, as both candidates crisscrossed the city by S.U.V., the canyon between the wealth and organization of their campaigns was hard to miss.

While the Democratic candidates have been crisscrossing the state, Ms. Pirro remains very much a presence in discussion of the race.

Both candidates have crisscrossed France for weeks and shaken more than 22,000 hands, according to the daily France-Soir.