After the elites have danced away over the first peak, though, this individual contest against the physical environment seems to become more collective.
In this contest, though, many politicians, pollsters and academics have concluded that the advantage of Mr. Giuliani's Republican party affiliation is offset by what he is most famously known as: the hard-fighting mayor of New York City, a place that has long been viewed by upstate voters as both culturally alien and as a drain on the state treasury.
For now, though, the contest remains polemical.
In a television interview, though, the contest organizer, Dana Borisova, said, "If he changes his sex he can compete next year, because he's a truly beautiful boy".
The most interesting thing about this contest to me, though, is that in the end it was Amazon readers who decided.
Mainly, though, my "forecast" for this contest is high uncertainty, as polls have missed badly in both directions within the past two election cycles.
But you learn from those experiences and you take stuff from that and bring it into this contest… Though it is quite punishing at times".
"I still like the shirt," he grumbles genially into the phone, as though this little contest of wills just took place the day before.
Both companies will have something to show at CES, though, so the contest for my affections begins once again!
And then, negative though the contest turned out to be, the undercurrents weighed in.
