Word: freshmen
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...consisting of mostly freshmen and sophomores struggled to have any kind of consistent play last season, coughing up 61 goals in the first five matchups alone...
...House freshman that have already endorsed the bulk of them, 15, have gone for Obama. Clinton has the support of the four New York freshmen plus Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania, and the remaining 20 are undecided. If you add in the four Democrats who have been elected in special contests since 2006, Clinton gains one more vote, California's Laura Richardson; Obama wins another, Illinois' Bill Foster; and two more are still undecided...
...their role in context: of 68 House members who remain undecided, 22 are freshmen. In the Senate only two of the eight freshmen have endorsed: Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island threw his weight behind Clinton and Missouri's Claire McCaskill is supporting Obama. But Senators have the luxury of six-year terms whereas the House members go back to the polls in eight months, and whoever is facing off John McCain at the top of the Democratic ticket could have a major impact on their own races - a concern many freshmen have voiced about Clinton behind closed doors. Democrats...
What's remarkable, in many ways, is the freshmen's ability to resist the pressure and allure of endorsing - both of which are enormous. How does a first-term Congressman find the strength to say no to Hillary Clinton, or her husband, former President Bill Clinton? Or the veritable rock star that Barack Obama has become? Any one of whom, more likely than not, raised money and campaigned...
...course, much of the party's leadership on Capitol Hill, such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as House and Senate Majority Leaders Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid, haven't picked candidates either, so the freshmen may have some cover when push comes to shove. But once all the primary voting is done, every superdelegate will theoretically be left to make up his or her own mind. And in that case, the biggest decision the Democratic Party could face in a generation may fall to the rawest of recruits. But, then again, perhaps that shouldn't be such...