This year two well-known candidates are fighting for the Senate seat.
In the debate tonight, both candidates were clearly fighting for the attention of every remaining undecided voter.
On the other end of the phone line, a candidate for the position is fighting paranoia.
The candidates are fighting to see who can move further to the right.
In the second stage, the candidates fought for the high ground on those three issues.
Now the candidates are fighting a legal and propaganda war that both are losing.
With nothing to do about it, Bradley aides try to use the alliance as one of the entrenched powers their candidate is fighting.
Balls says that all candidates have just fought the election on the manifesto.
The six major Democratic candidates are fighting it out there in what for some is likely to be a make-or-break battle.
There are serious issues, of course, that the candidates are fighting about.