I think I shall follow up my hint from last night with a full nomination. One can't really call this one an underdog.
++ Mer-dog
You praise yourself too highly,
Sauce, if you think my votes were in any way influenced by you.

Or by
lmp. It seems to me that, rather than a bandwagon, there was a remarkable variety of reasons why people wished to keep Smith. A true polysemy of voice rather than homology.