ZURICH - Tenant groups in the city backed the Initiative for a Future, arguing that large untaxed estates help keep land prices out of reach. Canvassers admitted that many doorsteps wanted to talk about KVG premiums and the cooperative list instead.

A 50 million threshold is far from a district-4 kitchen. That distance is the campaign's intellectual honesty and its political weakness.

Civic duty on the same clipboard

Some activists carried both texts. They said the equality argument on service landed better with students than with parents. Parents asked who would staff the kit while the children did civic months.