1.  Although his support dipped, exit polls showed Clinton winning 66 percent of the self-identified gay vote, while Dole picked up 22 percent and Ross Perot 8 percent.

2.  Any plan to assure long-term financing of the federal retirement program will be a "tough vote" for politicians, he warned.

3.  Any player could also access a federal budget spreadsheet and call up a congressional ballot to cast votes, just by clicking on a mouse.

4.  Any predictions about the 2000 presidential race made now, more than three years before the vote, inevitably will be risky, stupid and wrong.

5.  Denish said she hoped the lead might change again after the 189 votes were counted.

6.  DENMARK-EURO (Copenhagen) _ Exit polls from Thursday's vote showed that the Danes were moving toward rejecting the euro.

7.  DENMARK-EURO (Copenhagen) _ On Thursday's vote on whether to replace the Danish krone with the euro.

8.  DENMARK-EURO (Copenhagen, Denmark) _ Exit polls from Thursday's vote showed that the Danes were moving toward rejecting the euro.

9.  Dennis Erickson doesn't get a vote, but he has seen enough to know that Smith is the obvious choice.

10.  Dennis Hastert, the House speaker, has given no indication that he intends to bring the bill before the full House for a vote soon.