In the assembly elections Mr Trimble failed to establish a clear lead over the antis.
But for the most part they argue that the worries of the antis are overdone.
The antis think that the obstacles will change only slowly, if at all.
The antis had to content themselves, for now, with nitpicking over the membership of a committee on the assembly's standing orders.
The oil sands catch a lot of flack from the antis for being, among other things, more carbon intensive than other sources of oil.
In Ripon, the antis need only 574 signatures to start the ballot against the local grammar, but they have not even got these yet.
What really alarms the grammar-school heads is the fact that even if all the petitions fail this year, the antis can re-start the process next year.
And if they can deliver it with anywhere near the vigor that was demonstrated by the antis last week in Seattle, free trade may yet win the day.
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One idea had been for the pro-science team to link hands to keep the antis at bay but the Rothamsted scientists had feared that might lead to trouble so the plan was dropped.
While the pro-euro camp show every sign of taking on the iron discipline of Tony Blair's New Labour, the antis are riven by doctrinal disputes which will make it difficult to develop a single, coherent message.
Other people are critical because they feel that the protesters, the antis, have kind of seized the moment, and I want to play - I want to play a clip from a town hall meeting that Congressman Barney Frank held in Dartmouth.
So the first disappointment for the "antis" could be a vote for greater regulation rather than a full-scale ban.
On the other, pros and antis will cry out against that lead if it is not in the direction they favour.
The best estimate in midweek was that the Ulster Unionist Party was split evenly three ways, between those in favour of a deal, diehard antis and waverers.
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