Word: underdog
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...spirits as he energetically announces our arrival in Manchester, N.H. If ever there were a group of people that exhibits hope, it’s Motley and his Harvard Republicans. As members of the College’s tiny political minority, they are all too familiar with the underdog status of their candidate’s campaign...
...McCain is refusing to take the path of Dole. In fact, McCain's underdog role seems to have hardened the resolve of both McCain and the staff around him. Where Dole chose to make the final days of the campaign a celebration with friends, McCain remains focused on the prize, with a fierce intensity that continues to rouse his audiences. "I'm an American and I choose to fight," he calls out at every campaign stop, drawing cheers from the crowds, which tend to number no more than several thousand...
...delivery as the crowd noise built. Today, McCain delivers the same words with a verve and confidence that seemed previously lacking. He enters the final 96 hours of the campaign facing down extraordinary headwinds, aiming for one of the most unlikely electoral upsets in U.S. history. It is the underdog position that McCain has long embraced, and the old warrior shows no sign of letting...
Watching Barack Obama campaign the last few days of this election is a bit like watching the last five minutes of Chariots of Fire, on loop, or any other sports movie where the underdog winds up triumphant. One appreciates the scene more having seen the back story and the main character's struggles to get where he is. But even for those just tuning in, the scene is rousing: swooning crowds that number in the hundreds of thousands, a who's who of Democratic lions speaking on his behalf, soaring music, some of it played live by the rock stars...
...McCain-Palin” are most likely to catch the eye of an average Cantabrigian. In Cambridge, McCain is lemonade on a glacial morning or hot chocolate on a scorching summer afternoon. McCain is the brunt of Al Gore’s jokes and professorial grievances. McCain is the underdog, despite his policies that boost the job market, strengthen American independence, and grant our generation a promising future...