31.   If this were a popularity contest, the likable Garrett would be a landslide winner.

32.   If a popularity contest were held today, no-load funds would win hands-down.

33.   If Penske were to move his drivers and teams to the IRL, the popularity contest would be all but over.

34.   It is possible McCain could win the popularity contest in this state, but lose the delegates.

35.   It will ultimately, as in past elections, become a popularity contest.

36.   Let the popularity contest begin.

37.   Like stock, a baseball card is really a popularity contest.

38.   Like Zamora, he had little time for popularity contests.

39.   Many have expressed frustration that their fates are bound up in what is regarded in Europe as a frivolous popularity contest over which Europeans have no control.

40.   More important, it does not win the nongreeters any brownie points in the office popularity contest.