It’s election season, and that’s just as exciting at the letters desk as, say, elk season for bow hunters. Though the flow of
letters we’re receiving is tame compared with last year’s election campaign and tamer compared with what we’ll see throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, it’s decidedly picked up. There’s good reason for it, too; ballots are in voters’ hands now. It’s now or never for city council, school board and mayoral candidates. Vast campaign structures loom behind the 200-word missives that finally make their way into our inbox and onto the Roundtable page. The staff of the S-R Opinion pages has often pondered and discussed the best way to handle letters during election seasons. It isn’t just that we sometimes tire of hearing meaningless talking points slung back and forth between campaigns; readers also have mentioned that they just skip over the letters that look like election plugs/
Lynn Swanbom
, Spokesman-Review.
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Question: Do you read election letters to the editor?