The closest to an exception is "Yacht Approaching the Coast," with its relatively calm sea and its bored-out center of sun and light.
Beach volleyball, with telegenic men and women in bathing suits, is the closest to an exception, but even that sport has natural breaks for commercials.
Precedent: Evenly matched fights to the finish have been rare; the closest thing to an exception was the 2008 Democratic nomination race.
Mr. Santorum is the closest thing to an exception, and he may be the candidate most likely to win South Carolina if Mr. Romney does not.
The closest thing to an exception is the 32nd Senate District in the western corner of the state, served by the Republican incumbent Dan Kapanke.
The closest thing to an exception is probably Ron Paul, whose demographics are more cellphone-heavy, but he is not within striking distance in Michigan.
(The closest thing to an exception was the Democratic nomination of 1972, when Edmund S. Muskie won Iowa and New Hampshire but George McGovern won the nomination.
The closest thing to an exception is probably 1972, when George McGovern came from behind to win the Democratic nomination, but Mr. McGovern took considerable advantage of the party's new delegate allocation rules, which he had helped to design.
(The closest thing to an exception — the outlier in the chart — is Gov. Gary R. Herbert of Utah, who shares some of the moderate tendencies of his predecessor, Jon M. Huntsman Jr).
The closest thing to an exception is biology, where a degree still results in a substantial lifetime-earnings premium, but one that's less than in some non-STEM fields.
