Wild Card/Thursday — 11/6/08

How well did Demo poohbah ThomG and the little D’s do in promoting congressman-elect Walt Minnick in Kootenai County? Consider: The McCain-Palin ticket clobbered Obama-Biden by more than 16,000 votes in Kootenai County. Risch dumped LaRocco by almost 16,000 votes in the Senate race. And Bill Sali beat Minnick by less than 750 votes here. Going in, ThomG told me that Minnick needed to win in Ada and Kootenai counties to pull off an upset. ThomG wasn’t quite right. But he and other county Dems should hold their heads up that this county played a huge role in Minnick’s win by remaining relatively neutral. Now, for a re-shuffled Wild Card …