There are some seriously tight contests in the current voting – more than I can remember in the past.
For the Malkin Award, Neil Boortz and Charlotte Allen are neck and neck (break the tie here). In the Moore Award (for left-wing extremism), it's also extremely close between Amanda Marcotte and Jessica DelBalzo (vote here). Dick Morris looks like a shoo-in for the Dick Morris Award but Chris Christie and Erick Erickson are in a very tight race to win the much coveted Yglesias Award.
The poseur of the year is between Rob Horning on neo-liberalism and Robert Stacey McCain on the right's "manly endurance." May the best pretension win – but there's still time to cast your vote. The "Jehovah's Witnesses' anti-masturbation sign language" is battling it out with the "Fox News' Black Panther cam" for the Hathos Alert of 2012. This must be resolved. Take a sea-sickness pill, enjoy an orgy of hathos and then vote. In the Mental Health Break Award, both "Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up?" and "Dumb Ways To Die" are at 15.55 percent and 15.45 percent. Break the tie!
In the Face Of The Year, we also have a close one. It's between the dude meeting "Mitt Romney at Chipotle" and the anguished face of "Man Losing End-Of-Life Court Decision." I voted for the latter. As a face, it has everything. But you get to make the final call. And don't forget the "Chart of the Year" either. It's between the top ten defense budgets in the world and the demographics of Obama and Romney voters. Vote here.
To check out all the options and races at once, we have a single-serving post here. Have at it. And enjoy a slightly perverse review of the highs and lows and high-lows of the year of Our Lord, 2012.
(Photo: In this handout photo finish image supplied by Omega, Lisa Norden of Sweden is beaten by Nicola Spirig (Far Side) of Switzerland as they finish the Women's Triathlon on Day 8 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Hyde Park on August 4, 2012 in London, England. By Omega via Getty Images)
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