 What is a similarity between Forbes and Bauer?
Newspapers, cramped for space, confined their headlines to Bush, Forbes, and Dole. The first of these is political experience, of which Bush has little and Forbes has almost none. Since sports analogies tend to cut off the top tier at three rather than four (e.g., "bronze medal," "win, place, and show"), Bauer changed metaphors, telling reporters that he had reached "the first rung of candidates" and that lower finishers might soon perish. While some pundits lumped Bauer with the winners, others offered him the next best position--"leading the rest of the pack"--or at least distinguished him from the "losers." Talk show hosts reminded Buchanan that he had lost to Bauer and asked whether Buchanan was finished.
 their political beliefs
 they are considered underdogs in the race  the media attention they're receiving  their political beliefs  their upbringing