Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush wins, the margin of Bush's victory will have been provided by this year's version of Ross Perot: Ralph Nader, the third party spoiler. He proved the difference in New Hampshire and potentially Wisconsin, and may yet prove to be the difference in Florida...
Early-season polls have predicted that Penn, Dartmouth and Harvard will be the main teams in contention for the championship by the end of the season, but teams such as Brown and Yale, which return this season with deeper, more experienced rosters, will try to play the role of spoiler...
...league opponents, however, should remember that Columbia has always relished the role of the surprise spoiler, shocking both Penn and Harvard last season while both teams were grappling for position atop the league...
...Green Monster took a big bite out of Al Gore Tuesday night. Green party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, whose grassroots campaign took him from college campuses to shipyards to environmental rallies, fulfilled his potential as a spoiler, capturing votes in states critical to Gore. While the fiercely independent candidate fell short of collecting the 5 percent of the popular vote required to ensure federal matching funds for the Green party in 2004, Nader was euphoric early Wednesday morning. "The Green party has emerged as the third largest party in America, the fastest-growing party and the best party to take...
...spent the entire week talking about how we need to win this game, preferably by a lot," said co-captain Liz Sarles. "Columbia knows this could mean the tournament for us, and would love to play spoiler...