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A dark horse is one that shows unexpected racing speed and comes in first, 1 the
experts said he had little chance of winning.
In politics, an 2 candidate (候选人 ) for office who 3 a nomination( 提名 )or
election is called a dark horse.
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disrael is believed to 4 the first to use the phrase. In
his novel, The Young Duke , published in 1831, Disrael described a horse race and told how
the two top choices fell 5 ,while a dark horse which had never been thought of rushing
past the grandstand (看台 )in a sweeping triumph.
From racing to politics was a short step. As a political phrase, “dark horse ” 6 for the
first time in the national Democratic Party congress of 1844. The dark horse was James Knox
Polk who became the llth President of the United States. Polk had been the leader of the House
of Representatives from 1835 to 1839. He had 7 been Governor of the state of Tennessee. But
as a national leader, he was considered a political 8 .
Nevertheless, he 9 won the Democratic nomination and was elected 10 .Martin
Van Buren of New York, A former President, seemed sure of getting the nomination. But he
opposed making the territory of Texas part of the United States as mother state. He was 11
it because there was slavery in Texas. Van Buren did not want another slave state in the Union.
As a result, he 12 support among those Democrats who supported slavery.
At the 1884 congress, Van Buren could not get enough votes to win the nomination. The
congress got into 13 . Therefore, the Democratic leaders decided that the only wise thing
would be to run a dark horse , 14 who could unite the party.
And so, one of the party leaders, George Bancroft, proposed the name
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