In case you haven’t seen any coverage of the presidential primaries, you ought to note that there’s an alarming, if not entirely new trend that’s taking over the political punditry: using sports metaphors. It’s hard to describe anything, especially a competition like the Democratic and Republican primaries without dipping your hand into the fine chalk of the sports metaphor just a tiny bit. However, there seems to be no clear consensus as to how to describe this election cycle’s presidential primary. Is this a boxing match? Is it a marathon? Is it a monopoly game? A dog show?

The project at Fantivity for the next couple of days will be to find and flesh out some of the most popular/endearing sports metaphors for the primaries. The Top 20 list so far:

1. Marathon
2. Boxing
3. Horse racing
4. NASCAR
5. Baseball
6. Football
7. Basketball
8. The Olympics
9. Golf
10. Hockey
11. Pro wrestling
12. Monopoly
13. Soccer
14. Chess
15. Rodeo
16. Tennis
17. Poker
18. Synchronized swimming
19. Rodeo
20. Gymnastics - Just kidding, that would be the worst sports metaphor in governemnt since finding Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq was described by CIA Director George Tenet as a “slam dunk.”