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...Democrats have become even more uncomfortable following the loss of the party's Senate seat in Massachusetts in January. "People talk about the potency of the health care issue," Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior strategist for victorious underdog Republican Scott Brown, told the National Review on election day, "but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants." (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...
...obviously went in as the underdog,” Rosekrans said. “We knew we had no pressure, nothing to lose...
...Harvard men’s ice hockey team has been used to skating as the underdog for most of its current four-game unbeaten streak...
...truly believe that a team that is expecting big things but is somewhat of an underdog has to have lessons like these,” Bajwa added. “A tough loss like [Saturday’s], I think is going to make us better for the rest of the season...
...Obviously, it's not good for the DPJ. They can't say that they're different from the old crooks," says Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Business as usual is not what the public expects from an underdog party that just won the people's mandate on a platform of regime change. Dujarric, however, says that Ozawa is widely understood to be an "old-fashioned" politician. "If you want Mr. Clean, you're not going to date Ozawa," he says. "Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. That's his weakness...