Mr. Ford, who was cleared in an ethics investigation earlier this year, has been battling questions about his conduct.
But Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, has battled questions about his shifting positions on issues and his Mormon religion.
Lawyers for Vice President Al Gore returned to the Florida Supreme Court, but they found themselves mostly battling questions from skeptical justices who wanted to know whether it was proper for the court to be involved at all.
Watch him go into battle on Question Time or Newsnight, or at the Leveson inquiry, or in the papers, and the figure he cuts is not light entertainer but lay preacher – a fireball with bristles, angry and unabashed.
Since No 10 will ultimately win that battle, the question is how the Treasury will react.
In the battle in question, his supporters were trying to defend his palace from thousands of angry opponents; the police did nothing to intervene.
It is the most lopsided of lopsided ballot fights, this battle over Question 5 in Massachusetts, and getting more interesting to watch.
The battle in question was not the typical ground assault, but organic farming — how to identify beneficial insects, for instance, or to prevent stray frogs from clogging an irrigation system.
The battle in question is the 1685 Monmouth rebellion, the attempt by Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, to return from Dutch exile and overthrow the recently crowned James II, who may have been Monmouth's uncle but was also Catholic.
A great battle, no question.
