The Northern Review

The Idaho State Bar Association has polled its members.  Idaho Reporter. 

Apparently they like the incumbent over the challenger, John Bradbury of Lewiston and Grangeville. 

The system does not like Bradbury and it is using everything it has to be sure he is not elected.  The Bar Poll is usually part of the process by which challengers are not elected.  These polls are interesting in the fact of their utter boredom.  The people who “vote” supposedly have experience with the character and qualities of the people who are being subjected to the opinions of those being polled.  But most of those being polled have no knowledge of either of the people be compared, they have nothing but the good memories of cocktails with other lawyers at the country club or that last Bar Association Continuing Legal Education event. 

The polls are a sort of non-beauty pageant.  The lawyers always go for the one who is not going to challenge them of their brethern, the one who is tried and true.  The one who has the imprimatur of “the law.”  The one who has the approval of the members of the Bar Association. 

Yeech and good luck Idaho.

Your Bar Poll is irrelevant.  It is also amaturish.