Word: longshot
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While Al Gore, Mario Cuomo and other big-name Democrats continue to shy away from the presidential race, lesser-known hopefuls are trotting forward. Now seriously considering a run: Democratic Senator MAX BAUCUS of Montana. A plainspoken moderate, Baucus knows he is a longshot against Bush (who isn't?). But Baucus feels that winning the nomination would at least give him the chance to position himself...
Sitting in a tie for fourth place in the ECAC, only three points out of second place, the Crimson resemble the 1989 squad more than the 1981 team, though a national championship seems more than a longshot at this point...
...would be dangerous, however, to dismiss the words of this self-proclaimed lightweight too quickly. He understands small not physically, but in the sense of an underdog, an unlikely victor. This he certainly was--the Las Vegas bookies considered him such a longshot that they wouldn't even set odds on the match...
...settled back to between 7 and 10 points, about the margin before the debate. This late in the game, that is a daunting but not quite hopeless deficit. Reasonably objective observers, some of them Republican, reached the same conclusion: Dukakis can still come back, and he even has a longshot chance...
...campaign will be a longshot effort by a candidate who was too lazy to seek the help of her constituency. Now, Graham's campaign has begun to assemble a paid staff and hopes to raise $1000 per day to help win back her disaffected constituency...