Word: insurgentes
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Labeled "super" because of the wide range of state primaries contested and convention delegates awarded, last Tuesday witnessed the resounding victories of Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush and the subsequent demise of the insurgent candidates, McCain and Bradley.
"There are very few insurgent candidacies that have ever been successful," Linsky said, giving John Anderson, Ross Perot and Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880, as examples. "Most of the examples cut the other way."
The speakers also discussed the primary races and the general election in November, paying special attention to the insurgent campaign of Arizona Senator John S. McCain.
And the firewall came tumbling down. George W. Bush's early endorsement by John Engler, the Michigan governor who's hugely popular among the state's Republicans, was hailed as a backstop against any insurgent anti-Bush campaign. But as the Texas governor has learned the hard way, Republican support...
But by day's end, although the two weren't knocked off their horses completely, the results of the New Hampshire primary were more than enough to rattle their hold on the reins. Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) finished ahead of Bush with a solid 19 percentage point victory...