It is not an issue in the mayoral race, since both major candidates have endorsed it.

In the days before the convention started, the other candidates withdrew, freed their delegates and officially endorsed Kerry.

As congressmen, the letter noted, both candidates had endorsed the Clinton administration's gun-control legislation.

One is that all the major presidential candidates have endorsed tougher rules.

Another black candidate withdrew and endorsed Fields, leaving him the entire black vote.

In both local and Federal elections, candidates of both parties endorsed the notion that preserving open space is a good idea.

But when all the candidates endorsed expansion of insurance coverage, his plan tended to just blend in.

Both candidates endorsed such a commission during the campaign.

Legislators have repeatedly, however, resisted calls for a state income tax, and few candidates have endorsed the issue.

The Town Committee members vote on which candidates to endorse for public elections.