 Of all the individuals described in the article, who seemed to make the riskiest decision described?
For these three, the post-game spin contest is crucial. Newspapers, cramped for space, confined their headlines to Bush, Forbes, and Dole. As Fox News' Carl Cameron put it: "The other seven candidates could not crack double digits." At a news conference, an aide introduced Dole as the straw poll's "real winner." 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.
 McCain
 McCain  Buchanan  Dole  Bauer