For her part, Mrs. Clinton sounded a lot more like an announced than an unannounced candidate in her remarks at the Syracuse bar.

In pursuing ever more direct means of making his case to millions, the unannounced candidate has taken the scene of action away from the evening news.

Discontented with the current regime, a plainspoken outsider gives a nod to the electorate and suddenly finds himself an unannounced candidate for office.

He and Mrs. Clinton are unannounced candidates for the United States Senate in 2000.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an unannounced candidate for the nomination, said the proposed Federal equal rights amendment would "take the hypocrisy out of democracy."

One campaign held a brief strategy session to review poll results on Mr. Thompson, and found him well-positioned even as an unannounced candidate.

The Senate Republican leader, Bob Dole of Kansas, an unannounced candidate, also appeared to be in the millionaire group.

He picked up an information sheet and started to read about the unannounced candidate.

"And," Mr. Giuliani added, "I think it was probably one of the most successful that an unannounced candidate for office has ever had."

Mr. Goldin is an unannounced mayoral candidate whose office would be limited to strictly fiscal duties without his two votes on the Board of Estimate.