Word: mavericking
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...entered the campaign a year ago as the apparent front runner, an awkward role for a free-ranging, fence-jumping, kick-the-corral maverick. McCain never got the hang of it, breaking with his party's mainstream on tax cuts, immigration, harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects - the list goes on. By July his bank account and his poll numbers were in a race to zero, which turned out to be a blessing...
...event yesterday. “The Clintons have a long history in New Hampshire, going back to when the state launched Bill’s campaign in ’92.” Meanwhile, McCain bested Romney by a five point margin, capitalizing on his appeal as a maverick in the “Live Free or Die” state. “He’s not as into the rhetoric and insulting people, and more about bringing people together,” said Marissa A. Babin ’11, who added that she likes both...
...which sounds a lot like the first version, but since February, the Romneytron has cycled through such incarnations as Romney the Reaganite, Romney the social conservative, and Romney the hunter of varmints, large and small. These shifts have given voters enough pause to allow John McCain, whose message of maverick muscle and gritty experience hasn't changed since he watched fishes crawl from the sea and begin to walk on land, to gain a precarious lead in the Granite State...
...McCain’s reputation as a maverick above partisan politics is well-earned. Calling on his own experience as a prisoner of war, he has ardently opposed torture and criticized many in his own party who do not. While campaigning in Iowa, he refused to “drink his morning glass of ethanol,” as he jokingly refers to other candidates’ support of ethanol subsidies to pander to the Iowa constituency. Time and time again, he has come out against special interest groups and wasteful government spending, all in the name of serving...
...prove that he can do deep as well as droll. In a revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron remarked, "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election this May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed a detailed manifesto but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration...