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 […]

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% […]

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. 8:08 p.m. […]

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.

Nuff said!

Okay, here are my predictions for Election Day.   They are based on the following, quantitative and qualitative analysis of poll numbers, news stories, organizational strengths and weaknesses, 20 months of following these issues, and good old fashioned gut instinct.  And as always, anything can happen in politics. President – Obama (354-184) and 53% of the […]

The Indiana Court of Appeals is lifting a Marion County court’s order regarding the treatment of absentee ballots. Last week, a Marion County Judge ordered  County Clerk Beth White to instruct all poll workers to treat any challenged mail-in absentee ballot like a provisional ballot.  Republicans argued that the Clerk’s training manual was incorrect when it […]

I have heard Democrats and Republicans referring to the 2007 Mayoral race in Indianapolis as a reason not to trust polls because of Greg Ballard’s come from behind victory over Bart Peterson. Might I suggest looking at the actual results. In the May 2007 primary, there were 17,150 Republican votes for Mayor cast and 21,435 […]

Okay guys, it’s the day before the election.  Here’s your chance to make your predictions, not endorsements. Feel free to offer explanations if you wish.  Here are the questions. Who wins the Presidency (Electoral votes and popular vote percentage)? Which Presidential candidate wins Indiana (popular vote percentage)? Who wins the Governor’s race (percentage)? How many […]

My girlfriend, who is as busy as I am, voted today.  I asked her to write about the experience.   She was kind enough to do so.   And for the record, she’s a split-ticket voter. This morning, as I was pulling into the parking lot of J. Everett Light Career Center on 86th Street, […]