In politics, if an electorate lose faith in a front-runner there is no redemption, not even in the Bible Belt.
Because if you do so, you are a front runner, and nobody likes a front runner.
And if a front-runner gets less than 50 percent in Round 1, there is some evidence that more than half of the voters are willing to look at someone else.
Second, if a front-runner's stumble is caught on camera it is sure to be widely disseminated on YouTube and its ilk, which could clear a path for an outsider.
The rules for both parties had been traditionally that if a front-runner was even one vote shy of the number of votes needed, and no one could be persuaded to give him the needed voted, there was another ballot, and then another.
But if she campaigns as a front-runner, or as someone who is entitled to the presidency, she will falter.
The Nets have emerged as a front-runner if there is an Anthony trade, according to ESPN, which said they would be willing to trade Derrick Favors, the third pick in the June draft, a future first-round pick and the expiring contracts of Troy Murphy and Kris Humphries.
His senior advisor told the AP last month that Sanders would run a "much bigger" operation and would start out as a front-runner if he ultimately decided to run.
There are some "unbound" delegates that a front-runner could lobby if he or she is close enough reaching a majority -- but there are only 166 unbound delegates, so it would have to be a small deficit.
"If you're the front-runner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a front-runner".
"If you are the front-runner and you keep coming in third, you are not much of a front-runner.
