Rhode Island is hardly the highest profile contest but is wonderfully intriguing, certainly unique and has both wit and charm to it.
The highest-profile contests focused on autonomous vehicles in 2004, 2005 and 2007.
But in high-profile contests, that template is less true each year.
But it has become customary in high-profile contests for candidates to do so; many elected officials always do.
When it comes to art competitions, there are high-profile contests with big prizes and then, well, there are other ones.
When teams with names like the Indians, the Redskins or the Chiefs appeared in high-profile contests, he was often there to protest.
Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, prominent nonprofit organizations like Priorities USA, which supports Democrats, and Crossroads GPS, which backs Republicans, have pulled in tens of millions of dollars from anonymous donors to focus on high-profile contests, like the presidential race.
In the highest-profile contests, voters in Suffolk and Erie Counties — two of the state's largest jurisdictions — will elect county executives in races that have involved millions of dollars in campaign spending, endorsements by some of New York's biggest political names and furious last-minute pushes to turn out voters.
In what promises to be one of the most high-profile contests of the campaign, Ms King is facing a challenge from former Labour MP George Galloway who, as one of the leading anti-war MPs, is targeting the seat with his newly formed Respect far left party.
But Democrats said victories in governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia and in lower-profile contests elsewhere were a sign that dissatisfaction with conservative Republican policies had tipped the political balance toward Democrats as they head into a battle for control of Congress next November.
The Times reported that Kasich's camp had originally tried to cut a deal with Cruz's campaign a month ago, but that the Texan's advisers had turned down the approach "in part because it would have meant ceding the spotlight in high-profile contests, such as New York, in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states".
