On Sunday, about 100, 000 Indian spectators -- including a bevy of India's top celebrities and corporate bigwigs -- will pack into a stadium to watch two teams go at each other with everything they've got.
This is partly because marginals are the target of most pre-election effort: party bigwigs visit, activists campaign door-to-door, posters are pasted all over town.
Eurocrats often get on well with administration officials (another secret is that European bigwigs found the second-term Bush lot congenial to deal with).