First, no foreign leader can win a popularity contest against a sitting US president.
This is why viewing the upcoming conclave as a popularity contest is to have everything backward.
"I realized that Hollywood is more than a talent show--it's a popularity contest, " says McHale.
Today's search engines, he argues, are less like librarians than the judges in a popularity contest.
Part of it is a popularity contest and part of it is demographics.
This is not about a popularity contest where the majority gets to determine what is constitutional and what is not.
In all other times, the news business was typified by demagoguery and competition was nothing more than a popularity contest.
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Clearly, this is a popularity contest many publications are interested in joining.
The integrity of command is not obtained by running a popularity contest.
Today Vick is the leading vote getter for the NFL Pro Bowl where voting is often deemed as a popularity contest among fans.
These women command more respect, are recognized for their dignity, integrity, character and intelligence over those who win a popularity contest in the West.
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Though many favored her no-nonsense attitude and open door policy, Wasilla substitute teacher Anne Kilkenny compared the atmosphere surrounding Palin to a popularity contest.
Of course, the world stage is not a popularity contest.
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There is nothing earth-shattering about this concept, since most investors tend to view short-term market gyrations as little more than a popularity contest fueled by the relentless news flows and rampant speculations of the 24-hour-news cycles that have become our reality.
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The issue isn't whether the United States will be able to win a popularity contest in the region (this is doubtful even in the best of times), but rather, that alienating large swaths of the local population makes it much more difficult to defeat terrorism.
Senators in the Philippines are all elected by a national popularity contest, in which voters write in a dozen names each.
Paul Duffy, for the Home Office, told the hearing that the decision could not hinge on being a "popularity contest".
The Internet is like the prom, a superficial, popularity contest, where not having a twitter picture, or insanely high privacy settings does you as many favors as hiding in the bathroom, while your friends dance the night away.
Awards like the Grammys and the Oscars have always been a balance of critical recognition and popularity contest, but social media has shifted the equation a bit.
One reason Kerry has not been able to translate his debate showing into a lead in the popularity contest could be that voters think he is too liberal.
In the 1990s the popularity contest on Wall Street had people buying Sun Microsystems not because they wanted to get a share of a firm's profits but because they wanted a stock that other people wanted.
In the 1990s the popularity contest on Wall Street had people buying Sun Microsystems not because they wanted to get a share of a company's profits but because they wanted a stock that other people wanted.
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