But it is beyond human nature to suspend curiosity and even amazement about one of the most riveting Senate races in decades.
The apartheid laws that separated the races for decades have been swept from the books, but the divisions they engendered still define the ballot box.
Veysonnaz is part of Les 4 Vallées, which also includes Verbier, Nendaz and Thyon, and though it isn't especially well known in its own right, it has been the training ground for Swiss World Cup races for decades.
Meanwhile, back in Phoenix, attorney and City Councilman Greg Stanton triumphed in the mayoral race over lobbyist, and businessman Wes Gullet in a run-off election that turned out to be one of the most closely contested races in decades.
These voters - hailing from North Carolina and Virginia, two rock-solid Republican "red states" in presidential races for decades, and West Virginia, which twice supported President Bush - are the kinds of voters who are bolstering Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.
Then we had perhaps the Tour's most remarkable day's racing in decades, a day that strangely humanised Team Sky's reputation for robotic brilliance and rescued the race as a piece of competitive drama for at least another week.
"Dingell has not had a tough general election race in decades, or maybe really ever," Mr. Ballenger said.
That would set up a second Bush-Clinton race two decades after his father lost re-election to the presidency to Bill Clinton.
Mr. Daley, the city's longest-serving mayor, announced in September that he would not run again, setting up the first truly competitive mayor's race in decades.
Her family has been racing for decades, and she showed up at the track in her own custom purple fire suit.
