Meanwhile, unlike the Democratic nominating battle of 2008 — which was mainly a contest of competing demographic coalitions — there are real ideological disparities among the Republican candidates this year, with Mr. Romney trying to assert his conservative credentials rather than playing to the center of the electorate.
League officials did well in picking the contestants for Saturday's contest, mainly by securing Golden State's backcourt duo of Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry.
Let's start by reminding ourselves that this is not a contest mainly about the Labour party.
Independent women voted mainly in the Democratic contest, while independent men voted mostly in the Republican primary.
Instead, the current contest is mainly an indicator that South Africa's democracy has matured and is ready for meaningful political debate.
The proxy contest focused mainly on how efficiently the two companies could consolidate their operations -- that is, heated debates over the projections of cost-savings and the estimates of revenue losses from eliminating overlapping product lines.
Bottom line: Though Huppert pulled out a surprise win at the Golden Globes, I'd say the contest is mainly Portman vs. Stone, with the "La La Land" juggernaut likely to lift Stone to victory.
The autumn's weirdness in the Republican contest was mainly of the sort conceived by Hollywood's cynical reality-show producers and their complicit contestants: a theatre of vanity, ambition, and inadequate self-knowledge lit harshly by cable-network klieg lights.
So far, the contest has mainly involved quiet jockeying for position by television networks, cable and satellite television companies, and various technology vendors -- all of which want to make sure that they get at least their fair share of the presumed bounty.
The goal was to meet women, but once the spirits kicked in, I would challenge fellow drinkers to Shakespeare-quoting contests; he mainly wanted to know how people planned to find happiness.
