Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church's liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate the death of Christ and hisresurrection on Easter Sunday.
It is improbable, first, in that his campaign got off to such a terrible start that hisresurrection at this late stage, just in time for the Iowa caucuses in January, is a minor psephological miracle.