1.   All election campaigns are popularity contests to some degree.

2.   It will be a popularity contest.

3.   Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest.

4.   Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest.

5.   All-Star voting by fans is more a popularity contest than a talent contest.

6.   Armstrong calmly reminded everyone it was a race, not a popularity contest and pedaled on.

7.   Anyway, these folks decided to sponsor a so-called Fall Frolic with a popularity contest for women.

8.   Becker would not let it seem like a popularity contest.

9.   A Downtown Athletic Club official promised this is not a step toward reducing the Heisman race to a popularity contest.

10.   A ruthless business player in oil, banking and real estate, Jones admits his concern is the bottom line, not winning popularity contests.