Two, he had to counter the dark, gloom-and-doom vision of misery that Trump painted in his own convention closer.
A few whispers have spread about replacing Mr Brown with another leader but there is no obvious successor, and to foist another prime minister on the electorate now would probably look both chaotic and undemocratic.Boris Johnson, the Tory candidate, will be the mayor of London, casting Labour into even darker gloom.
Barton, operating from the hills of central Pennsylvania, and Field, from a working-class town in Montana, may have unlocked the secret of successful Web commerce amid the darkest gloom of the dot-com bust.
To test my theory, I asked a cluster of accomplished Seattle writers about dark-season gloom and creative fertility.
In all these works, the swirling brushwork can read as the tensions of everyday life, a darker societal gloom, rough weather or some other disaster.
Last year the research boss of a foreign bank in Thailand, who had issued a critical economic report, was sent the severed head of a dog through the post.The darkest hourThe gloom in East Asia is likely to deepen in the months ahead as more firms and banks go bust and unemployment and inflation rise.
Dirty clothes, moldy pillows, and empty palm-wine jars litter the unmade graves, and as the remaining light peers in through slits in the wall, for a second, in the half-dark and gloom, it could be any teenager's unkempt bedroom, anywhere. .
To lose with a side parading Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie to the bottom-placed club who had won only one of their previous eight games would have caused the darkest of glooms to descend on David Moyes and his struggling champions.
In the flickering dark, a palpable gloom.
His mother, Jemima, is described by Claire Tomalin in this excellent new biography as having been "powerful, rather than tender," with a "dark streak of gloom and anger".
