The republicans are fully behind their candidate.
1880: A roar from ten thousand throats go up,For we've kicked another behind. — The Opening Ball in Comic Australian Verse, ed. G. Lehmann, 1975. Quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, 1985, Sydney University Press, ISBN 0-424-00113-6.
About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed - I tethered by my rope.