Premier Alex Scott and Ewart Brown go head to head tonight. The Royal Gazette takes a look at where the pair stand on key points.

Economy: Despite some efforts by the Scott camp to claim their opponents might raise the spectre of income tax, both candidates are centre-ists quite happy to leave the nitty gritty of money management to others. Mr. Scott will be delighted to let Paula Cox carry on while Dr. Brown has promised some hired experts.Health: Both challenger and incumbent are desperately backtracking from the controversial decision they agreed to in Cabinet - to site the new hospital in the Botanical Gardens. Human rights: The picture of the candidates standing together at the recent multi-religion conference where rights for gays was a dirty word showed both candidates are keen to court the church vote.International relations: Alex Scott scored a diplomatic coup with his visit to Washington where Government had top level talks with key figures. But Dr. Brown has that glamour factor and seems to be a personal friend of every American celeb or sporting star who arrives on the Island. Meanwhile Mr. Scott's main claim to fame is that he was once snubbed by former college dorm mate Bill Cosby.Independence: The goal of splitting from Britain is a time-honoured policy of the PLP but both candidates can't backtrack fast enough from an obvious vote loser — although they both are keen to stress that Bermuda will get there one day. We just don't know when.MPs support: The two contenders had eleven MPs each when the party fell apart hours after polls closed in the 2003 election. With Paula Cox out of the race the situation has changed little, despite talk of unity.Party support: As a behind-the-scenes worker of longstanding Alex Scott will have grown up with most of the delegates who will tonight decide his fate. Ewart Brown might be famous for his networking skills but you can't catch up decades in a couple of weeks of campaigning.Press relations: Neither candidate exhibits the palpable disdain of former Premier Jennifer Smith when dealing with the press. But while both are seen as media savvy - Mr. Scott is a former PR man while Dr. Brown is notorious for calling press conferences for even trivial announcements - both have sought to put distance between themselves and hard questioning. Over the last year Mr. Scott has turned down repeated requests for face to face interviews with this paper but finally granted one to most of the media in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence which came when he was off island. But he did promise to spend public money on a Government information channel. Race: Every politician says the race issue must be dealt with head on and these two are no different. But despite appeals for unity Premier Scott will be remember for a racially tinged email in which he said he was "getting tired of listening to, and taking crap from people who look and sound like (Tony) Brannon." The misdirected missive caused him to take out an advert apologising for behaviour not befitting his office. Whites appear to warm to Ewart Brown more — despite his plantation talk.Skeletons in the closet: Berkeley was an albatross for Mr. Scott for years. But now the school is finished and wowing all who visit it he will hope the public will soon forget the saga of how it got built. Pay to play accusations and dubious dealings with BHC have tarnished Dr. Brown's reputation.