Democratic presidential candidates clearly hope to make the deficit a campaign issue.

Six candidates hope to succeed her, including Ms. Clarke's daughter.

IN this election year, there is no shortage of slogans and campaign sound bites that the candidates and their supporters hope will get voters' attention.

In the end, neither candidate achieved all he could logically have hoped in New Hampshire.

No candidate can hope to make it personally to every corner of California.

But with voters in so many states going to the polls at the same time, a candidate can't hope to campaign in most of them.

Each candidate hopes that Mr. Jackson will shed his strength on him one day.

But if the candidates were hoping to make themselves known to the crowd, a few spectators were unimpressed.

Most candidates who make such announcements have to rent a ballroom, hang banners, and hope that reporters will arrive to chronicle the events.

Contributions from candidates to their own campaigns are made as loans that candidates hope will eventually be repaid.