Yea, and I think the other part to this is the fact that Chick-Fil-A was widely considered to have the best chicken sandwich, and it's alright. But there was no real competition. And so what ends up happening is you have a candidate who has run un-opposed for a really long time finding him/herself up against an opponent.
And the old tired standby looks as old and tired as he/she ever did, but there was no competition. So, now that there is, it's interesting. All of a sudden, it's like, "Wait, THIS is who we've been voting on all this time?"