But the campaign has been a low-key affair, with no television advertising, debates or celebrity Facebook endorsements.
The Prada Marfa dispute joins the recent art-versus-advertising debate that has been agitating the town of Marfa since June, when Playboy Enterprises planted its own installation on the same highway, just a mile northwest of town.
This year, despite polling in Colorado that shows voters to be drawn to pro-choice candidates, abortion has played a diminished role, both in campaign advertising and debate.
In advertising andin debates, candidates' political attacks arestrategically aimed at the rivals they mostwant to beat.
"Everything else -- whether it's advertising, visits, debates - our opponents are going to be around," said Mark Mellman, Mr. Kerry's pollster.
And in the pop realm, where avant-garde aesthetics have penetrated advertising and debates over gangsta rap (to say nothing of Elvis's swiveling hips) seem a distant memory, the potential to shock seems close to vanishing altogether.
Her party colleague, Vicente Fox, a former president with an enduring gift of the gaffe, recently said her victory would be a "miracle".Perhaps not coincidentally, the curbs on advertising and debates seem to have made it harder for his challengers to make more than a slight dent in Mr Peña's early lead.
After all the accusations and commentary that the case has generated around the country, there is mostly silence at the heart of the campaign: little advertising, no debates and no platform by the leading opponent except that if he should win, the governor will pick somebody else.
In May 1998, the ban on tobacco advertising was debated in the EP plenary [ 28], which was divided in two groups.
