In an Election Day appearance before a small but revved-up crowd outside a polling station in Houston, Mr. Cruz gave credit to his thousands of fervent on-the-ground volunteers.
"His music is darker, he's willing to sit on a riff longer, to make rock music without a softened edge," said Scott Sullivan, a D.J. at WKDU, the radio station at Drexel University, who has been a fervent on-air supporter of Mr. Vile since "Constant Hitmaker".
Now also available online and via an app, Radio Biafra's reach has grown among pro-independence Igbo groups, who have become increasingly vocal and fervent spurred on by Kanu's rhetoric.
Great Little War Game 2 (£1.99) Developer Rubicon Development's little and big war games have a fervent fanbase on Android, and this latest one looks like it won't disappoint.
Moore, who has built a strong following for his evangelical views and for thumbing his nose at federal authority, generally can rely on fervent support by one-third of the dominant state Republican Party, especially in rural counties.
It is a decidedly traditional strategy for a campaign that has been run largely by an army of enthusiastic volunteers (Mr. Paul's circle of paid staff members has been small, but will grow, he said), and fervent supporters on the Internet, who have promoted their candidate on blogs and other online forums.
Android Task manager app Any.do already has a fervent fanbase on Android, but now it's hoping to attract similar buzz on iPhone.
After the Republican rout in November, the story line took hold that because of the recession and Tea Partiers' fervent focus on the debt as a moral matter, divisive social issues were going on the back burner.
The discussions, often fervent, go on.
The San Francisco Ballet, led by the artistic director Helgi Tomasson, is a national treasure, prized for its dancers along with its fervent insistence on commissioning new ballets.
