Wild Card/Monday — 10/22/07

In a comment over the weekend, Dan of the County said that absentee balloting for the Coeur d’Alene City Council elections has been slow. I don’t know how to interpret that, other than the obvious — that the long campaign to make an issue of the Lake City Development Corp has yet to take hold. That doesn’t bode well for the three or four challengers who have made that a key issue in their campaigns. On the other hand, a partisan campaign strategy for nonpartisan races could be to strike late and strike hard, so favored candidates don’t have a chance to respond adequately. Is it possible that the electorate in general isn’t interested in this year’s Coeur d’Alene elections? You can answer that question or start your own thread with this Wild Card …