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. The Jill Long Thompson campaign misspelled […]

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 […]

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?

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 […]

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. Update: Two seconds after I put this up the Obama campaign put out an […]

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. Bush and John Kerry combined in the Fall […]

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 […]

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.   Let’s assume Barack Obama takes most of […]

The only thing that wasn’t standard about Republican Vice-Presidential nominee’s speech this afternoon is that it was in Indiana with less than three weeks before the election. Thousands of people (about 15,000 according the fire marshall) jammed the Verizon Music Center in Noblesville to see Palin.   The speech she gave was basically the same speech […]