However, on both occasions when it looked like the tourists would be walked over and leftfordead - they always came storming back in the second half to deny any major thumping.
It is a grim story - many hundreds of girls- some as young as 11 - gang-raped and leftfordead, or dragged off into the jungles to be used as sex slaves.
Leftfordead just a few months ago, there seems to be a zip in his step, if not in Iowa, then certainly in New Hampshire, where polls show him contending for at least second place.