I’m the sucker who has read, and listened to, every bit of news about today’s Democratic primary for governor, summer be damned.

Here are my conclusions, yearbook style: 

Most Congenial: Doug Racine

Best Road-Trip Buddy: Peter Shumlin

Most Visionary: Matt Dunne

Best Organized, and Smiliest: Deb Markowitz

Most Underrated: Susan Bartlett

So who am I voting for? I’ll never tell.

This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2010.

Paula Routly is publisher, editor-in-chief and cofounder of Seven Days. Her first glimpse of Vermont from the Adirondacks led her to Middlebury College for a closer look. After graduation, in 1983 she moved to Burlington and worked for the Flynn, the Vanguard Press, the Burlington Free Press and Vermont Times – in that order. In 1995, she and Pamela Polston started Seven Days newspaper. Routly ran the business and built the news side of the operation, which she edited for years. She has spearheaded...