It was incredible, people say, because in elections past, Mr. Rodgers's hapless opponents sometimes garnered just over 100 votes.

As if they were a championship team that had devastated yet another hapless opponent.

There were echoes of his 2004 Senate race, when he did not so much defeat his hapless opponents as benefit from their self-immolation.

They were always racking up scores of 58-3 against hapless opponents.

Americans also know there is such a thing as being too nice a guy, like George McGovern, Nixon's hapless opponent in 1972.

Back then, a hapless opponent on the road was a virtual invitation to defeat.

With his left hand balled into a fist, he struck his hapless opponent hard in the stomach.

The challenger's 37 d6 and 37 d7 were the mauling of a hapless opponent.

How many times has a journalist, in a writing frenzy against a hapless opponent in a locker room, used the occasion to score "101" points?

But he quickly hammers in a couple of bigger serves, sending his hapless opponent scuttling about, to wrap up the match.