Marc Elrich for Council At-Large, 1994

Marc Elrich may have scored a sweeping victory in his at-large reelection run last month, but it was not always this way. Elrich ran four times - in District 5 in 1990 and 1998 and at-large in 1994 and 2002 - before winning an at-large seat in 2006. In every at-large race, he has done better than the last time. Elrich finished seventh in 1994, sixth in 2002, second in 2006 and first this year.

Here's a mailer from Marc Elrich's first at-large campaign in 1994.