Toni Preckwinkle, the county board president, has been solid but initially had an easy act to follow in Todd Stroger.
Controlling deer is initially not an easy decision, but Lyme disease is debilitating to thousands of people and animals, and an environmental disaster for Connecticut's hundreds of endangered plants and animals that are already losing habitat at an alarming rate.
Wall Street has never been a place for the faint of heart, but, in the antebellum era, with remarkably few rules of any sort yet established, New York businessmen played hardball and, at least initially sensing an easy mark, they lined up to play with Hamilton.
The word "Internet" was initially coined as an easy way to refer to the combination of these two networks, to their "internetworking".
The children who were initially confronted with an easy choice or who were required to give their sticker to Doggie, on the other hand, shared fewer stickers with Ellie.
What initially started as an easy on the eye but fairly competitive clash erupted into a thrilling match with Andreu's top-quality free-kick, which opened the scoring.
The race was initially viewed as an easy win for Denham (R-Turlock), but has become increasingly uncertain in recent weeks.
That's been the hope of Hillary Clinton, after what initially looked like an easy path to the Democratic nomination turned into a bar fight of a primary thanks to a grassroots army of young progressives rallying behind her opponent, Bernie Sanders.
Initially, it was not an easy sell.
