He is trying to convince anyone who will listen that he is not on some quixotic bid, but is serious about winning.

Johnson personally disliked La Follette but grudgingly admired his quixotic third-party bid and generally agreed with his 1924 platform.

And then, despite the fact that he was a virtual unknown in politics, Schweitzer began a quixotic bid to oust Conrad Burns, a two-term incumbent Republican senator.

It is only a moment in Mr. Hayden's quixotic bid to lead the nation's second-largest city, but it sums up the madcap, anachronistic feel of the quest.

He worked as a utilities contractor in Texas, where he got interested in politics, once making a quixotic bid for a state legislative seat.

In 1986, Mr. O'Rourke made a quixotic bid for governor against a very popular Mario M. Cuomo and met his only defeat in 15 election campaigns.

She did make one last quixotic bid for her old seat in 1998.

Outside that office, the highlight of his career was a quixotic bid for governor in 1986.

Hatch gets treated like a joke by the analysts for his quixotic bid, yet Forbes is regarded as a believable candidate.

Mr. Meyer hasn't had a failure that I know of since his stint in Chicago as Cook County field director for John Anderson's quixotic 1980 presidential bid.