Word: also-rans
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Take Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), for example, the most prominent also-ran of this election. Kennedy lost to President Carter in 24 of 34 primaries during which he chastised the president for, among other things, lack of leadership, abandoning the principles of the Democratic Party, being a Republican in disguise, and displaying cowardice for not debating. There was no political love lost between these...
Former Gov. John B. Connally, who spent $11 million during his 13 1/2-month bid for the nomination only to win one delegate, has been criss-crossing Texas to help Reagan capture the state's crucial 26 electoral votes. Benjamin Fernandez, an also-ran even before he started running for the Republican nomination, thinks Texas' electoral votes are so crucial that whoever wins them will win the election...
They single out Gerald R. Ford--who saved himself from also-ran status by deciding to stay out of the race in the first place--as Reagan's greatest asset in the party. The former president has logged thousands of miles this fall stumping for his former arch-rival and has attacked Carter as if his own neck is on the line...
...Republican side, George Bush, who actually won a few contests, was rescued from the ranks of also-rans when Reagan asked him to become the party's vice-presidential nominee. And Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.), who was spared also-ran status when he started his independent bid, looks likely to become one anyway after November...
...being an also-ran is not a stigma in American politics; Reagan and Richard M. Nixon are notable examples of politicians who transcended their also-ran status. And chances are, politics being politics, many of the losers from the 1980 presidential race may risk becoming also-rans once again--as early as the morning after this election...