Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A dark horse is a previously lesser-known person, team or thing that emerges to prominence in a situation, especially in a competition involving multiple rivals, [1] that is unlikely to succeed but has a fighting chance, [2] unlike the underdog who is expected to lose. The term comes from horse racing and horse betting jargon for any new but ...
The term "dark horse candidate" was used at the 1844 Democratic National Convention, at which little-known Tennessee politician James K. Polk emerged as the candidate after the failure of the leading candidates to secure the necessary two-thirds majority. [31] [32] Other successful dark horse candidates include:
sacrificial lamb: a candidate who is put forward to run for office, by their party or others, but who has no chance of winning. stalking horse: a perceived front-runner candidate who unifies their opponents, usually within a single political party. grassroots: a political movement driven by the constituents of a community.
Co-founder of the influential SCOTUSBlog mentioned a new, and somewhat unlikely, candidate to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
It’s an offensive lineman that isn’t being mentioned as much as Liam Eichenberg and Isaiah Wynn for that starting role this training camp but could be considered a dark-horse candidate. His ...
Undefeated through five games for the first time, Kentucky is nearing a rare claim to powerhouse status. The irony is that the guy leading the rise has identified as an underdog for much of his life.
On the next roll call, the convention unanimously accepted Polk, who became the first dark horse, or little-known, presidential candidate. [50] The delegates selected Senator Silas Wright of New York for Vice President, but Wright, an admirer of Van Buren, declined the nomination to become the first person to decline a vice presidential nomination.
The nomination was finally awarded to John W. Davis, a compromise candidate, on the one hundred third ballot, after the withdrawal of Smith and McAdoo. [16] Davis had never been a genuine dark horse candidate; he had almost always been third in the balloting, and by the end of the 29th round he was the betting favorite of New York gamblers.