Daley to Obama: Win as underdog

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, a brilliant politician and effective city executive, offered this advice to Barack Obama on how to win....

"He's the underdog. He has to be always the underdog. ... Even though he won this, he still is the underdog. That's a great position to be in. ... In your own eyes, you have to feel like you're always the underdog," Daley said.

"You never think you won anything until you raise your right hand and that person says who you are. Put your hand on the Bible, raise your right hand, then you know you're in there. I think he understands that. He's always looked at [himself] as the underdog. Yes, he won Iowa. Yes, he did it. But he's going to go into it with the same spirit of each state and never be deterred by what result could take place later on."

Reprinted from Chicago Sun-Times.