BERN - The Initiative for a Future polled near 20 percent yes in the same wave that sank civic duty. Business ads showing a machine shop, not a yacht, had already begun to run in regional slots. Juso said the sample was old. The sample was also large.

Green politicians stressed that the climate itself was not on the ballot, only one funding idea. That distinction is true. It is also hard to fit on a tram poster.

A pattern from February

The February environmental no is the memory this campaign is trying not to become. It is becoming it anyway.