On Wednesday, Ms. Murkowski's Senate career was hanging by a thread, thanks to a last-minute push by her upstart opponent, Joe Miller, a former Fairbanks judge and a Tea Party favorite whose candidacy had been all but written off a few weeks ago by political experts.
There was widespread speculation in the press that Governor Foraker, nominally a Sherman supporter, would declare a favorite son candidacy or else support Blaine if he entered the race.
One thing I will say right now that Brown certainly should do, if for no other purpose than to influence the campaign in the direction of his priorities is to declare a favorite son candidacy.
At that point, a few governors and states would still be in a position to offer favorite-son candidacies, or uncommitted slates, and the fun would begin.
Another was a close look at the prospects of a "favorite son's" candidacy in neighboring New Hampshire.
Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell's candidacy for U.S. Senate in Delaware appears to be dividing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz).
But if nothing else, as charismatic centrist favorite Beto O'Rourke's candidacy showed in Texas—where his refusal to take PAC money was a factor in his appeal everyone will have to at least gesture toward a newfound activist rage toward the ruling class.
Ms. Bachmann, a Tea Party favorite who announced her presidential candidacy during the Republican debate on Monday, has been shopping her memoir for weeks, meeting with several New York publishers to discuss a possible deal.
Manuel Villar, 60, a senator who had been considered the favorite before Mr. Aquino's unexpected candidacy, wound down his campaign in Tondo, a poor Manila neighborhood where he grew up.
By the time of the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, whatever Owen's own ambitions, his candidacy had a "favorite son" appearance to it.
