1st Place: Brett Favre
2nd Place: Jail expansion
3rd Place: Anything with Bon Iver

In case you didn’t make yourself heard last year, you wanted to reiterate that you are really, REALLY tired of anything having to do with that Favre guy or that jail thing. More people came out of the woodwork to opine about Favre playing for the Vikings than almost any other single vote in the poll. It has become like a family drama that you wish would go away, but someone always drags it back up. On the other hand, people have quieted down about the jail expansion for a while. Exercising your free speech and political power is a lot like exercising your quads and your deltoids – you need time to rest in between. The Bon Iver media blitz was right up there with the jail issue. Justin Vernon’s music is sweet, but even chocolate can make you sick if you eat too much of it. – Betty Rae Matthews