More than any past election, this one will be about leadership, pitting a young pretender against an old hand.
There is no sign whatsoever of the son setting himself up as a young pretender against the father but, should he be tempted, the poll suggests he could count on solid support among younger voters, Labour supporters and the C2DE social grades which sit at the bottom of the National Statistics pyramid.
The fighting there took place between the Greek and Hellenized elements and the Semites, who demanded their right to participate in the autonomy of the city and who supported pretenders against Artabanus III.
Yorkist pretenders against Henry VII having secured support in Ireland, Henry decided to experiment with a regime of military and financial experts who would attack the Yorkists in the field, take statutory steps to prevent the king's government in Dublin being utilized against him, and endeavour to revive the royal revenue that had virtually disappeared.
She encouraged the Byzantine-backed pretender Gundoald against Guntram, king of Burgundy, but Guntram made Childebert his heir, placating Brunhild and securing his own position against Gundoald.
His son and coemperor, John VIII, ignored the tenuous bond that had been established and in 1421 supported a pretender, Mustafa, against the rightful heir to the Turkish throne, Murad II.
But there is one match-up the golfing public would love to see more than any other: Woods v McIlroy, the dominant player of the last 15 years against the young pretender, the recent past against the probable future.
The tensions between the two states did not diminish when Vologeses V (or IV; reigned 191 208/209) supported a pretender (Pescennius Niger) against Septimius Severus.
The last of Cole's 107 caps was the only one he failed to start, the veteran replacing Shaw, the young pretender, at half-time against Denmark at Wembley in March.
Said was an old man, who was held in good standing by tribesmen across the region and had formerly been a caïd (a local governor with almost absolute power) for the Moroccan government, even serving in the army of Sultan Abdelaziz against a pretender at Taza in 1902.
The failure of the second Jacobite rising (1745), in which the people of Argyllshire with few exceptions fought for the Hanoverian George II and against the Stuart pretender, brought important political and economic changes.
