Indiana

The Democracy Will Survive

Posted on November 05, 2008
I?m tired after runing on a few hours of sleep.  When I get up later today I will do my post electoral piece, but in the interim, please remember this.  The democracy will survive.  It has for more than 220 years.  Anybody who is freaking out right now needs to relax, regroup and focus on [...

Ta Ta Townships!

Posted on November 05, 2008
Here’s an unofficial vote of the consolidation question on the township question.  The first number is the percentage of yes votes. Center:              59         41% Franklin:            69         31% Lawrence:         67         33% Perry:               63         37% Pike:                 58         42% Warren:             57         43% Washington:      70         30% Wayne:             61         39% I’m off to bed...

That Really Is All Folks!

Posted on November 04, 2008
10:00 p.m. Barack is President.  Mitch is Governor.  Abdul is right. 9:25 p.m. ABC News is calling Ohio for Barack Obama. If it holds this race is pretty much over! 8:38 p.m. Ponder this. In Marion County Democrats are out straight-ticket voting Republicans by 20,000 votes but Daniels is winning by 47,000 votes...

That?s All Folks!

Posted on November 04, 2008
The polls are closed in most of Indiana. I’ll be live blogging all night from the RTV 6 studios. Feel free to post your post-electoral thoughts here. The first thing I can tell you is that the Daniels camp called 100,000 voters today. We’ll see how that impacted the results.

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Try to Figure This Out

Posted on November 01, 2008
The Republican candidate for President, in the last days of the campaign, is rallying the faithful in Indiana. The Democratic candidate for President, in the last days of the campaign, is running commercials in Arizona, Georgia and North Dakota. The polling data and anecdotal evidence shows a significant number of Hoosiers are going to vote for Barack [...

Tall Township Tales

Posted on October 31, 2008
Marion County Assessor Greg Bowes is disputing claims by the township assessors that the property tax appeals are proving their initial assessments were more correct than the reassessed property values.   The assessors, who are fighting a proposal to consolidate their office functions to the county level, say many of the residential appeals show homes were [...

Ballot Battle

Posted on October 31, 2008
A Marion County Judge is ordering County Clerk Beth White to instruct all poll workers to treat any challenged mail-in absentee ballot like a provisional ballot.   Marion County Republicans argued that the Clerk’s training manual was incorrect when it told poll workers to put all absentee ballots into voting machines...

Assessing The Assessors

Posted on October 30, 2008
Current Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and former Mayor Bart Peterson are having a news conference today to promote the consolidation of the township assessor functions into the county assessor.  So in that spirit, I’m reprinting a letter  a listener to my morning radio show sent me in support of consolidation...

Citizen Obama

Posted on October 30, 2008
Much to the chagrin of conspiracy theorists and their ilk, Barack Obama is a U.S. Citizen. Now get out of your basement and off the Internet and try using a real issue, like taxes and fiscal policy.

It?s a C-o-n-spiracy!

Posted on October 30, 2008
The guys at Politico have done a great piece on the most idiotic campaign rumors and why none of them are real stories. I suggest some of you read this and go relax for a while.   Trust me, you’ll feel better.

Internally Yours

Posted on October 29, 2008
One way to get a feel for how an Election will go is to look at internal polling done by campaigns.  If the news is good, they usually leak the results.  If the results aren?t all that great, they keep it under their hats. But sometimes, things leak out...

End On a High Note

Posted on October 29, 2008
 

Another Day, Another Poll

Posted on October 28, 2008
Another poll will be released this afteroon on the Presidential and Governor’s race in Indiana.   Word is that it will be good news for  Mitch Daniels and not so good news for Jill Long Thompson.  I’ll be watching to see if there was any movement in the Presidential race...

Let Me Make One Thing Perfectly Clear

Posted on October 28, 2008
Normally I use this space to express my thoughts on major issues and leave it at that.  But today I have to use this space for a point of clarification. Lately I have been accused of being a shill for Barack Obama.  What’s funny about that is that I’ve also been accused of being a shill [...

It?s The End of The World As We Know It

Posted on October 27, 2008
Karl Rove has put Indiana in the Obama column. The Gary-Post Tribune has endorsed Mitch Daniels for Governor. Sarah Palin is making a third trip to Indiana in two weeks. And gas in my neighborhood was $2.36. I think I just saw my neighborhood cats and dogs dancing with each other.

Make It All Go Away

Posted on October 27, 2008
I’m off tonight to the IU School of Law in Indianapolis for an event, but I wanted to pass this along.  The new word on the street is the City-County Council Democrats are taking Paul Bateman off the ethics committee and replacing him with Joanne Sanders...

Sunday Morning Posts

Posted on October 26, 2008
With a little more than a week to go before Election Day, here’s what I’m hearing out and about. John McCan’t 2008 More and more Republicans are expressing their frustrations with the John McCain campaign in Indiana.  As one high level official put it, “They are disorganized!”  He also added, “Luckily they are not so disorganized that [...

A Little Food For Thought

Posted on October 25, 2008
I had dinner last night with some politicos from Hamilton County.   Apparently earlier this month a poll was taken of more than 400 Hamilton County residents on the Presidential and Governor’s race.  The results. President John McCain - 53%. Barack Obama - 47%...

IPS?d Off

Posted on October 23, 2008
Indianapolis Public Schools have really stepped in it this time. Not only is it being reported that the school district admitted to hiding plans to close four of the schools with enrollment under 300 students listed on the November 4 referendum construction ballot which would spend $278,000,000 of your hard earned property tax dollars, but I [...

Another Day, Another Battleground Poll

Posted on October 23, 2008
Zogby is reporting today that the race in Indiana has swung back into the McCain-Palin directions. A survey of 473 likely Indiana voters reveals… McCain - 52.8%. Obama - 42.3%. Undecided - 4.9%. The margin of error was 4.6% and was conducted October 17-20...

Foreclosed Is Forewarned

Posted on October 22, 2008
Word is the local branch of the NAACP is filing a federal lawsuit against the Marion County Board of Elections seeking a declaratory judgment that no citizen will be denied the right to vote if their home has been foreclosed and they have been forced to move...

One Moment, Please

Posted on October 22, 2008

Oops!

Posted on October 22, 2008
Here are examples of some those moments in politics when things don’t go quite the way they were planned. The Obama campaign wants to charge the press for access to its election night party in Chicago. The RNC apparently spent quite a few bucks on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe and hair...

Thompson Calls Tax Caps ?Gimmicks?

Posted on October 21, 2008
Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson this week called the property tax caps passed by the Legislature ?gimmicks?. Thompson made the statement while participating in a candidate forum in Indianapolis on Sunday. She said she supports capping how much property taxes can increase, but she says the caps passed by the legislature were a bad idea...

Another Day, Another Poll

Posted on October 21, 2008
A new poll is out by Public Policy Polling regading the major races here in Indiana.  Here are the results. President Barack Obama - 48% John McCain - 46%. Governor Mitch Daniels - 57%. Jill Long Thompson - 36%. Attorney General Linda Pence - 42% Greg Zoeller - 39% Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett - 38% Richard Wood - 36% The poll of 1,411 likely voters was [...

Was This Worth $25?

Posted on October 21, 2008
Here is JLT’s new ad that’s going up on TV in some parts of Indiana.  Her campaign offered supporters the chance to get a sneak preview for a $25 contribution.  Would you have forked over the cash or have waited to have seen it somewhere on television?

?I?m Not Dead Yet!?

Posted on October 20, 2008
I’m trying to decide who had a worse Sunday, Peyton Manning or John McCain.    Between Barack Obama drawing a collective crowd of 170,000 during two campaign stops in the battleground state of Missouri, raising a record $150,000,000 for the month of September (more the George W...

Obama?s Back?

Posted on October 20, 2008
Politico is reporting Barack Obama is coming to Indianapolis on Thursday.  There are no details on the visit except it will happen in the morning and Obama will head to Hawaii to visit his 86-year old grandmother who is seriously ill.

NW Times Picks Daniels For Governor

Posted on October 19, 2008
This cannot be good news for the Jill Long Thompson campaign. The NW Times of  Indiana has endorsed Mitch Daniels for Governor over JLT.  While I never think newspaper endorsements do much to move voters, it does show something when the premiere paper in an area where JLT should do well and Daniels not so well  [...

Indiana. Indiana. Indiana.

Posted on October 19, 2008
I spent some time yesterday looking at the Electoral Map and came to a startling, but obvious, conclusion. Come election night, Indiana could determine just show how soon the Presidential race ends.  It requires a couple assumptions which I don’t think are too far off the plantation...

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