They will do it, though, without the champion of the class, Dehere, who came down with a stomachache this morning and was scratched from the race.

Old friends say they are puzzled by the transition she has made from champion of the working class to defender of big business.

Mr. Clinton immediately saw his opening to be a champion of the middle class.

To achieve promotion into the first class competition, it was not enough in those years to just become champion of the second class.

How is it that a self-proclaimed champion of the working class like Serra could be so roundly repudiated by the workers?

"Are you ready for a president again who is a champion of the middle class?"

Do you believe John Edwards is going to show the courage and the conviction that has always made him a champion of the middle class?

But John Kerry is no champion of democracy or the working class.

As a politician, Walker successfully portrayed himself as a champion of small farmers and the working class.

Other aspects of Nicholson include his social awareness as a champion of the working class.