Today on KIDOam.com and 580 am (locally) Tom Luna and Stan Olson will debate their positions on the Austin Hill Show at 3 pm. Listen in!! It should be interesting ... But there is something EVEN more interesting happening ... My stake in the ground is set. It's been there for over a month. As goes the Luna-Olson race in Idaho, so could go the races for Idaho Governor and US Congress (in the 1st CD.) I know, I know, Stan Olson and Tom Luna are NOT running for US Congress or for the Governorship. ... they're running for Idaho's top education spot, which Luna has twice sought and once won. Yes, I know that. And in fact, that's my point.

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• Otter: Idaho's business plan is working & people are noticing/Kevin Richert
• Walt Minnick's 'pernicious' lie/MountainGoat Report
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• Juan Williams: Both right and wrong/Marc Johnson, The Johnson Report
  

Question: What do you make of Dennis's contention that the Luna-Olson race is a bellweather for how the other races go?