Sunday Morning Posts
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 they will lose Indiana, but you can forget about the nationwide race.” By the way, Republican guru Karl Rove has put Indiana in the blue column for Obama. This can’t be good.
Poll Dancing
- A Research 2000 poll is slated to come out this week showing the Governor’s Race only a couple points part, but it may be the odd man out. Other internal polls are showing up to a 30-point difference between Mitch Daniels and Jill Long Thompson in some parts of the state. By the way, the political class agrees that there are going to be a lot of split ticket voting here in Indiana. The conventional wisdom however is that Mitch can win with either John McCain or Barack Obama taking Indiana, but JLT only gets over the hump with a huge Obama win.
Bizzarro Politics
- The world we live in just officially turned upside down. The left-leaning Gary Post-Tribune has endorsed Mitch Daniels for Governor over JLT. Also add the Ft. Wayne Gazette (her hometown paper) also endorsed Mitch. This is not a good sign.
Negative on Going Negative
- Republican Attorney General candidate Greg Zoeller has said “no” to going negative on Democrat Linda Pence. The organization which funds Republican AG candidates wanted Zoeller to go negative against Pence, but he refused. So the group pulled it’s funding for some television attack ads. Zoeller’s campaign is still going to be on the air, they are just “taking the high road” in the last days of the campaign.
The Ghosts That Haunt Me
- I’m told some members of the former Peterson administration members may be facing criminal investigation for alleged wrongdoing over at the Indianapolis Bond Bank. Stay tuned for that one, it could be big.
Shake Em Up
- There may be some rearranging the offices in the Ballard administration soon, but don’t expect to hear anything until after Election day.
Uncivil War
- The only thing holding Marion County Democrats together these days is the Barack Obama campaign and their goal to deliver the County big. But once that is over, there is going to be blood in the streets as civil war gets underway for control of the party. Watch for the what I will fondly label in the future as “The War of the Wild Irish Roses.”
