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. Internal Democratic party polls are showing […]

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 […]

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. Meanwhile, here’s one from the […]

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.   That way there will be a quorum on […]

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.

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 […]

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%. Governor Mitch Daniels – 75%. Jill Long Thompson – 23%. It’s a […]

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 […]

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. Meanwhile the Big Ten Battleground Poll has the race as follows… […]

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. Of course there has been no evidence of […]