No one in the Conservative leadership had time to correct the caricature of a comment from their own parliamentary representative in the North.
Neither did anyone else. The Minister of Foreign Affairs left Kirkenes, and the Labor Party strengthened its team with players who know tax and power.
Of course, they did, in an election in which the High North barely has a place on the bench when the game kicks off, to stick to the football metaphors.
If I had the energy, I would also include criticism of the Norwegian national broadcaster, which controls most of the election campaign and has notoriously omitted Northern Norway in its national election broadcasts.
And then there is surely a politician or journalist who feels overlooked and who will be able to find examples of how they have actually put the spotlight on the High North.
They will have to forgive me. In that case, it has been drowned out in the noise of electricity prices and the wealth tax.
Measured against the number of warships and soldiers sailing and training in the North at any given time, measured against the lack of total preparedness and civil communities unable to stand against an attack from Russia, the amount of political analyses of the situation in the North becomes vanishingly small.
Disturbingly small.