But Congressional campaigns, especially in upstate New York, can be very personal contests, built on longstanding relationships and local perceptions.
Google aired a Super Bowl commercial during today's Saints-Colts contest, breaking the company's longstanding opposition to TV and brand advertising.
Cue Card is the longstanding favourite for the King George VI Chase, the Boxing Day contest which forms the heart of any racing man's Christmas, but he goes there with a significant cloud hanging over the form of his Dorset stable, which will have had only one runner in the previous 12 days.
The longstanding celebration of black beauty in festivals, pageants and contests might surprise, and even trouble, some readers.
Phillips's longstanding debate with Nielsen is commonly portrayed as a modern-day contest between faith and reason, but Phillips never regarded it that way himself.
Bringing together hundreds of artists, hackers, and hobbyists in an "artful exploration of open web technologies," the contest channeled the creative energy of the net's longstanding demoscene subculture into a new form that promoted experimentation with new open web tools.
Mr. Glock's award, characterized as a protest by some who voted for him in the union-sponsored contest, is an apt symbol for a police force whose longstanding problems seem to be getting worse by the day.
All experiments were based on the longstanding finding in Cherax destructor, and many other crayfish, that all agonistic contests between two non-moulting, non-sexually-active individuals are predictably won by the crayfish that has at least a 5% longer carapace, regardless of gender [22].
The twelfth run of the hit ITV celebrity dancing contest launched on Sunday evening on BBC One, with Sir Bruce Forsyth handing over his longstanding presenter's reins to Claudia Winkleman following an energetic tap dance flash mob.
In that contest, Mr. Odinga asserted that the presidency had been stolen from him through electoral fraud, stirring longstanding ethnic grievances and leading to clashes that killed more than 1,000 people.
