Ed Markey's campaign is trying to portray the U.S. senator as the yet-more progressive candidate in his Democratic primary battle against U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III.
The plan? Enlist the help of U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist.
In 1974, Muhammed Ali rose to the level of a transcendent sports figure when he defeated heavyweight champion George Foreman and reclaimed the premier world boxing title. Realizing he couldn't trade punches with the fearsome and heavily favored Foreman, he developed an innovative ring strategy called the "rope-a-dope." Ali covered up his upper torso with his arms and leaned back into the slack ring ropes, taking temporary punishment as the powerful Frazier punched himself out until Ali flattened him in the eighth round.
It was a shocking tactic that led to a stunning result. Without that unexpected victory in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire, Africa, Ali would have been an important boxer, but not an internationally acclaimed sports luminary.
