Mark Collins was happy because he was an obvious winner.

But a series of televised debates in the last two weeks has produced no obvious winners or losers.

Business travelers may not be victims of a bed war, as he suggests, but they are also not the obvious winners.

But it's enough to get through the Dip and be seen as the obvious winner.

The obvious winners were gold funds (up 4.2 percent).

"Hotels, restaurants and retail stores are the obvious big winners," he said.

This is an absurd list, obvious winners combined with others completely out of their league.

That doesn't mean, however, there aren't already a few obvious winners and losers.

It was an obvious winner in the swimsuit competition but fell short on talent.

Yet somehow I didn't care to trade places with the obvious winners.