The country is full of rugby supporters who think they know how the changes to the England team for this afternoon's fascinating Six Nations meeting with Wales at Twickenham will affect the contest, but the truth of the matter is that no one knows anything ahead of kick-off.
Those ratings are less useful for the current Republican race than most contests, as the truth is that no single candidate is dominating the race and both opinion surveys and experts closely following the contest agree any of several candidates could emerge victorious.
The value of defending a principle in politics is that, even if you lose the contest, a truth has been told.
The other sponsors of the contest are the McCann Truth Central and Momentum Worldwide division of the McCann Worldgroup, which is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies.
It does not hold the same stakes as the presidential vote in Florida, but the contest on the Upper East Side of Manhattan reflects the truth about elections everywhere: blunders occur.
The truth is, the contest is visually boring.
The way to get at the truth is through a contest of facts and ideas - not by taking back awards and threatening historians, journalists, and members of the public with prison.
But the truth is, in this incendiary contest, you just never know how it will go.
The truth is it is a contest for power, not for liberty.
Also, with the emergence of the adversarial system, judges and juries are "tasked not with the independent pursuit of some ultimate truth but with arbitration of a contest between parties who assert different versions of the truth," he observed.
In 1988, he organized a contest of N.Y.C. kids to design a poster that would "tell the truth about tobacco addiction".
