And, just maybe, we'll try to be a bit more careful about calling victory as we watch contests happening in the London Olympics.
He was just back from a bird-watching contest.
In doing so, Mr. Simmons suddenly has made the Republican primary a hotly watched contest.
Besides the special House election in Virginia on Tuesday, the Old Dominion has another closely watched contest: its governor's race.
State Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska surged past the state's attorney general, Jon Bruning, on Tuesday to capture the Republican nomination for the closely watched contest for the Senate seat being vacated next year by Ben Nelson, a moderate Democrat.
But with Ms. Seltzer's upset over Michael P. Forbes of Quogue in the Democratic primary last month, the high-stakes, nationally watched contest the Republicans had been girding for was abruptly canceled.
Ms. Capito said one consideration was that she expected it to take a costly and divisive "slash-and-burn" campaign to unseat Mr. Byrd in what would be a nationally watched contest.
To stir up interest in the new car, even though dealers have not begun to take orders, Ford is kicking off a summerlong T-bird-watching contest that will culminate in a giveaway of three original models.
Page A20 New York DEMOCRAT TRIES TO HOLD ON IN CLOSELY WATCHED CONTEST What was expected to be a lopsided race between Democrat David I. Weprin and his Republican opponent, Bob Turner, a retired television executive, has become a close and closely watched contest that is being seen by some as a referendum on President Obama.
But thanks to visceral disenchantment with Washington over a stagnating economy — and to the sometimes gaffe-prone Weprin campaign — what was expected to be a lopsided race between Mr. Weprin and his Republican opponent, Bob Turner, a retired television executive, has become a close and closely watched contest that is being seen by some as a referendum on President Obama.
