The fatal 1999-2000 campaign had been an awful season.
But Gove is also extremely popular among the Conservative grassroots, so could prove fatal to her campaign if the pair become the final two on the shortlist.
KENNEDY FOE IN TROUBLE -- Jack E. Robinson III, the ill-fated Republican challenger for Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, faces a new adversity, and one potentially fatal for his campaign.
While Mr. Corzine has a consistent lead in the polls and far more money to spend in the last days of the race, Democrats who traveled with him today, from city to suburb, expressed the nagging concern that overconfidence would be fatal to the campaign.
Mr. Lowrie thinks the accusations will eventually be discredited, and that they weren't fatal to the campaign.
Until very recently, and thanks to the likes of The Guardian's The Counted, Fatal Encounters and Campaign Zero's Mapping Police Violence, the data to prove the systemic racism that results in the police killings of unarmed black people has not been widely available to the public.
Obama had been so accommodating of the other side for so long, so tarred with the brush of weakness by Fox and their GOP, that an outright apology for anything could prove fatal to his campaign.
And certainly commitments to push tax rates up can prove fatal to political campaigns.
"Bypassing Iowa would be a fatal mistake for any campaign to make," said Carrie Giddins, the communications director for the Iowa Democratic Party.
TO RUN short of fuel, as Field-Marshal Rommel discovered in 1942, can be fatal to a military campaign in north Africa.
She ridiculed the belief, which is fairly widespread in Democratic circles, that her husband's defection was one step short of a fatal blow to her campaign.
