The contest is doing far more than simply filling a void that the midterm elections have left behind.
If our increasingly professionalised political contest is doing little to remedy the pressing issues and dilemmas that confront us, how can it be described as anything but a failure?
But once the game is done, the contest's statistics will reflect the difference in motivation, assuming that it mattered.
Because it's only when the certification is done that the contest can begin.
While the 2014 election is projected to set a record for overall spending for midterm contests, it is doing so with far fewer donors than past cycles.
Then again, I guess it shows that the Grammys are not a popularity contest, it's done through votes from your peers, and I guess my peers didn't like that I was selling a lot of records.
Interview Street, the startup that helps companies recruit by holding programming contests called CodeSprints, is doing something a little different this week — it's holding a CodeSprint for 13 different startups, all backed by Sequoia Capital.
"Everyone is doing contests online, and we're taking advantage of that endless stream," said Mr. Yoshimura, 22, who finished his senior year at Brown University in the spring and says he is still a few credits shy of a political science degree.
