It should not come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to District 105 that this year’s election was going to be a much hotter contest than the last time, at least in terms of actual campaigning. Lest you’d forgotten, Linda Harper-Brown won by 19 votes in the last election against a Democrat I never saw a single placard for. In a district that was considered unimportant and that most people assumed was solidly Republican, that came as quite a surprise. Now that the Dems have scented blood, they’re going in guns blazing. The two ladies running in the Democratic Primary have probably already spent more money campaigning against each other than Bob Romano did campaigning against Linda Harper-Brown two years ago. And perhaps it’s paying off, as the DMN dedicated an entire article to endorsing Loretta Haldenwang when their endorsement of Harper-Brown in the last election was a paragraph in an article about various local races.

Like I said before, this should be an interesting election. The question is will all those Democratic voters who voted in ’08 come out to vote again? Is this a futile race if they don’t? There might be an answer in the numbers that turn out for the primary; as we all know the Democratic primaries were rather raucous last time because of the race between Obama and Clinton. Is there any of that energy left? We shall see.