a missing "is?"

Kadima   Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:10 am GMT
"Polls this week show Foreign Minister Livni’s centrist Kadima party neck-and-neck with the right-wing Likud of Benjamin Netanyahu, with the Labour party of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the main partner in Olmert’s coalition, trailing in third place"

Shouldn't there be an "is" between "Kadima party" and "neck-and-neck?"
???   Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:22 am GMT
No, this kind of construction is possible. Another example would be

'This picture shows them together'
Kadima   Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:04 pm GMT
It makes so much sense now going back to it. Thanks
Iain   Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:47 am GMT
neck-a-neck