Word: defeated
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...Luckily, before that irreversible leap into insanity, my answer arrived – in the form of a vividly older and angrier Bill Clinton taking on the stage. It was after his wife’s unexpected defeat in Iowa, and at first, I was taken aback. But then it came to me. At her weakest political moment, Hillary did not stand up for the positions or the campaigning style that had led to her downfall...
...This isn’t just a matter of principle. It is also one of electability. In 2004, Democrats reluctantly selected John Kerry as their nominee, reasoning that his centrism would make him a safe bet come the general election. The result was defeat despite the many blunders of the Bush administration that, during the 2003 primary season, made a Democratic victory seem inevitable. His loss reflected voters’ rejection of such meandering centrism, and desire for a Democratic countermovement...
...convincing defeat of Dartmouth broke the streak and opened 2008 with a victory in the Ivy League opener, and things didn’t look...
...that [Rudy Giuliani] is no longer ‘America’s Mayor,’” he says. However, he finds it hard to shake his cynicism, and says, “I fear that the Democrats might still find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”Vowell focuses on current events of a different nature, discussing her thoughts on the current Writers’ Guild Strike both as a friend of many focal figures in the fray and as a writer herself. “The fact that...
...lost there to the under-funded Huckabee by nearly double-digits. The Iowa loss weakened him in New Hampshire, where he has a vacation home. Then when he tried to establish himself as the conservative alternative to McCain in the south on Super Tuesday, Huckabee again rose to defeat him on a bare bones budget...