Word: underdog
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With Cardiss Collins' resignation, this could be the first year since 1973 that Illinois has had no woman in the U.S. House. Prussing is one of four women running for the House in Illinois, but like the others is an underdog: she is matched against three-term incumbent Tom Ewing in a district that voted overwhelmingly for George Bush...
...Rosa, a maintenance technician in Elk Grove Village, is an active member of numerous community organizations, including the local A.C.L.U. and PTA. But as a heavy underdog in the race, with no political experience, he will have to stretch his "common-man" credentials...
...served as an aide to then-Eighth District Representative Frank McCloskey. He now wants back in the Capitol as a Congressman. A founder of a local community task force, Citizens for Seniors, Weinzapfel is a defender of Medicare, a healthy minimum wage and accessible health care. He's an underdog, but upsets seem to be a tradition in the "Bloody Eighth," which sent four different Congressmen to Washington...
...unknown running against an almost legendary incumbent, O'Sullivan is a clear underdog. Nevertheless, he beat out five other candidates to win his party's primary, and he's gamely offering his own business experience to the First District as a change from business as usual. O'Sullivan has a straight-arrow Republican platform--he's for term limits, budget cutting and workfare--but to soften his hard-line fiscal policy he proposes a cushion of universal health care and reduced insurance rates for the self-employed...
With Mel Hancock's retirement, the Seventh is up for grabs this year, but Bamberger is the underdog in this solidly Republican district. With years of serving on county boards and task forces and having taught political science to college students for 26 years, she won a six-way primary with 53% of the vote. A longtime Democrat, she staunchly supports labor unions and workers' interests. But even a Website may not bring enough of the right recognition for a political upset...