Florida and Louisiana, it said, were "highly competitive," New Jersey and others were "competitive," and Connecticut was "somewhat competitive".
He even ascended briefly to first place in the evening news ratings in spring 2007 and has since been somewhat competitive with the leader, Brian Williams at NBC.
Texas primaries can be somewhat competitive, when seats are open or when incumbents are weakened by bad behavior or bad votes, but general elections at the legislative level are not.
Rutgers was somewhat competitive against a team that came in 0-10, had the third-worst defense in Division I-A and had to cross the country to play a meaningless game after a narrow loss to its bitterest rival.
Even Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks launched his own SVOD offering, CuriosityStream, which is somewhat competitive with Smithsonian Earth, given it also features nature programming.
Her marriage having congealed into resentful banter with a pretentious academic husband who's into cheating with coeds, she's somewhat competitive with her daughter, somewhat flirtatious with Don, and somewhat, ah, more with someone else.
Typically, it has opted for a 40something former major champion who is somewhat competitive on Tour, but losing seven of the past nine Ryder Cups perhaps prompted the organization to alter its thinking.
Prices are somewhat more competitive in the eastern part of the island.
Pennsylvania is somewhat more competitive, but Mr. Obama leads there by about 5 points in the forecast (that was also his margin in a Rasmussen Reports poll of the state on Thursday).
We had classified Texas, where Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, is retiring, as Likely Republican, hedging our bets somewhat as open-seat races are inherently somewhat competitive by default.
