Obviously off-year races, as you know, Chuck, are -- and special elections are a far different breed than regularly scheduled elections on every other -- or in even-numbered years.
The Swiss headed off unwelcome inquiries by making it illegal for banks and their employees to provide information about their clients' financial affairs, and soon found that the anonymity of a numbered Swiss bank account attracted other foreigners too.
One set of clients, she reports, finally decided if they died together (say, in an auto accident) on a date with an even number, the child would be raised by one set of grandparents, and if they died on an odd-numbered date, by the other.