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History indicates that Undergraduate Council insiders hold a fearsome advantage in presidential elections. But the two pairs of outsider candidates in this year’s race say they see widespread discontent with the status quo, and that 2008 might just be the year of the underdog...
...expects this season’s contest to be a “slightly more low-key election than in years past” because of the composition of the playing field. It would take “something new and uncharted,” she adds, for an underdog to trounce her team?...
...voters do view the incumbent’s track record as a plus, UC electoral history points to one other route by which an underdog could gain in the polls. In the UC election of fall 2005, the initial insider favorites—John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07—finished last after a series of faux pas marred their campaign...
...Rise of an Underdog Joel Stein's repeated references to Republican Ron Paul's campaign as "nerdy," especially the idea of a "free-market commodity-based money," indicates how ignorant most Americans are about the monetary system [Nov. 12]. Money affects virtually every interaction we have with other people. When this interaction is in effect controlled by a private cartel (the Federal Reserve) instead of free-market forces, there is room for manipulation. I wish media institutions like Time would stop dismissing scrutiny of something as important as the monetary system. You do a disservice not only to yourselves...
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