The place where outside electioneering is a bigger problem is in the City Council races, where smaller-bore contests among lesser-known candidates have been swamped by the spending of one group, with the vaguely positive, positively vague name Jobs for New York.
Then, in 1985, Gov. Anthony Earl of Wisconsin decided "America's Dairyland" was boring and sponsored a contest for a new state slogan, which drew an avalanche of suggestions.
When that happens, the underlying partisanship kicks in, and most such contests are boring, predictable affairs -- meaning that all the real action was determining which candidate associated with the majority party advanced to the runoff.
As the object of two competing women, he seems bored by a contest that builds into a furious argument about who is a better fighter, Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali.
The truth is, the contest is visually boring.
To wit: As a sporting contest, Italian soccer is getting boring.
The resulting contest, on a secluded country road, is so pointless and boring it would be more convincing to see these beta-males race on unicycles or pogo-sticks.
Lay's is holding a flavor contest in Canada and the four finalists are anything but boring.
But the student, Thomas, who is prohibited from giving his last name until the current contest is over, predicted that the show was in real danger of becoming boring once the novelty of the concept wore off.
Non-contests are bad news for everyone, crushing the spirit of the losing sides and boring the pants off the armchair viewers.
