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Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama in the Indiana delegate hunt on Tuesday, 38 to 34. Add on the committed super delegates and Clinton has a 42-39 Indiana lead. It comes despite her narrow 14,000 vote victory over Barack Obama, who carried only nine of Indiana’s 92 counties. Clinton picked up four delegates in the 8th and […]
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By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Virginia Dill McCarty was the first Hoosier woman to run for governor three decades ago. State Sen. Vi Simpson was a candidate in 2003. Soon thereafter, Kathy Davis was appointed to be the first lieutenant govenor later that year. In 2004, Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman was the first to be […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY and MARK CURRY
INDIANAPOLIS - Thank you, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Love, Barack Obama. Obama ended the worst two weeks of his presidential run in Indiana with a razor-thin loss to Hillary Clinton. His salve came earlier in the evening in North Carolina where he trounced Clinton and it stands to open the […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - When it became clear in early March that the Indiana presidential primary was going to have high impact, we analyzed "Evan Bayh’s predicament" of trying to forge a Hillary Clinton win in a state that had often been hostile to that Democratic family. Howey Politics Indiana conducted this interview with U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - There were surreal moments for both the Jill Long Thompson and Jim Schellinger gubernatorial campaigns before Indiana’s glass ceiling shattered. They began Tuesday afternoon when it became clear that there was a large Republican crossover into the Democratic primary. What would it mean? One campaign hand told HPI, "We’re flying […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By RYAN NEES
KOKOMO - The sputtering Indianapolis Democratic machine may finally have broken down Tuesday night, coming to a plodding halt after a series of electoral wrenches that ended the campaign of Jim Schellinger and may soon end the presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton. Now Jill Long Thompson must assume the mantle of gubernatorial nominee […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MARK CURRY
INDIANAPOLIS - Phones were ringing off the hook at the offices of Indiana’s three remaining uncommitted superdelegates the morning after the curtain fell on the political theater that was Tuesday’s state primary election. Everybody wanted to know whether the Hoosier holdouts had made any decision about who they will back at the Democratic […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MARK SCHOEFF JR.
Howey Politics Indiana
WASHINGTON — Three days after the Kentucky Derby, it appeared that Rep. Baron Hill had backed the winner in the Democratic presidential horse race but put his political money on the loser of the vote in his southeast Indiana district. Standing out from most of his Democratic congressional colleagues, Hill […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Maureen Dowd, New York Times: (Hillary Clinton) showed again with her squeaker win in Indiana that for many white working-class men, she is The Man — more tenacious and less concerned with the judgments of the tony set, economists and editorial writers. Talking up guns, going to the Auto Racing Hall of Fame, speaking from […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
LAKE COUNTY EMBARRASSED BY ELECTION NIGHT: The nation watched Tuesday night as Lake County election officials held the fate of the Democratic presidential primary in their hands — and held it, and held it and held it (Times of Northwest Indiana). The delay provoked a broadside of allegations from national, state and local pundits of […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jill Long Thompson received a phone call from Jim Schellinger who conceded. When Thompson talked to HPI, she had not received a phone call from Schellinger, who she defeated by about 7,100 votes in a race that wasn’t decided until after 1 a.m. Asked if she would have problems in unifying the […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Indiana Democratic gubernatorial primary is still at loggerheads, with Jill Long Thompson declaring victory in Fort Wayne and Jim Schellinger’s campaign in Indianapolis saying the race is too close to call. "I believe I’m clearly the winner and I’m looking forward to the race against Mitch Daniels in the fall,” Long Thompson said. "It […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh listens to the victorious Hillary Clinton speak at the Murat Tuesday night. It took a couple more hours to confirm her razor thin 22,000 vote victory in Indiana. A fired up Bayh introduced Clinton by saying, "She’s going to stand up and fight for us and lift up our nation so […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
HILLARY, JLT BREAK THE GLASS CEILING: Hillary Clinton pulled out a narrow victory in the Indiana primary in tandem with a razor thin win for Jill Long Thompson in the gubernatorial primary - the two women crashing through Indiana’s glass ceiling. In 192 years, Indiana had never nominated a female for govenor. With 99 percent […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hillary Clinton pulled out a narrow victory in the Indiana primary. With 99 percent reporting and Clinton ahead 51-49 percent, CNN projected Clinton the winner at 1:10 a.m. In an election where the invigorated youth vote was to be potent, it was the 69 percent of senior citizens who voted for Clinton. The race teetered on slow returns […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY and MARK CURRY
INDIANAPOLIS - U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh claimed victory Tuesday night even though her lead had dwindled to a mere 17,000 votes.. Clinton jubilantly quoted Barack Obama: "He said I would win Pennsylvania, he would win the North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh claimed a legendary victory Tuesday night, narrowly winning the Indiana presidential primary. Clinton jubilantly quoted Barack Obama: "He said I would win Pennsylvania, he would win the North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we’ve come from behind, wev’e broken the tie and it’s full speed on to […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With over 80% reporting, Hillary Clinton maintained a 52-48% lead over Barack Obama in Indiana. But results from Lake County won’t be announced until 11 p.m. There were 193,000 votes cast in the last general election in Lake County. In the 2004 primary there was 115,000 Democratic votes. Obama himself seemed to concede Indiana during […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama conceded Indiana at 9:13 p.m. today, congratulating U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton for her "victory in the great state of Indiana." Obama was speaking to a victory rally in Raleigh, where he scored a big win in North Carolina. Clinton maintained about an 8 percent lead and CBS News has projected her a winner […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - By about 3:30 p.m. Election Day, more than 300 people had voted in my precinct - Washington 53 at the Northside Knights of Columbus. A normal general election turnout would be in the 230 range. But what caught my eye was the huge stack of Republican ballots still on the […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - As a political journalist, I try not to get swept up in the emotion of the crowds. But standing in a light rain at the American Legion Mall last night and surveying 21,000 people waiting nearly three hours to hear Barack Obama speak was simply one of the most impressive […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama waves to a crowd estimated by the American Legion to be 21,000 in downtown Indianapolis Monday night, less than 12 hours before the polls open in the critical Indiana primary. An Obama victory in the Hoosier state would press Hillary Clinton to leave the race. A Clinton win means the race […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton capped a frenetic day of campaigning as a final prelude to the cirtical Indiana primary. A Clinton win on Tuesday will mean the Democratic presidential campaign continues, possibly all the way to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in late August. An Obama win, along […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - The polls are all over the map. Congressional districts that were once thought to be safe are now in play. Here’s Howey Politics Indiana’s late Monday afternoon analysis.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE POLLS? What we are seeing is a wide range of African-American sampling in polls. How the samples are […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama provided the capstone event to the sensational Indiana presidential primary Sunday night, less than 48 hours before Hoosier voters render a decision that could have an incalcuable impact on American politics and beyond.Sen. Hillary Clinton waves to a friendly crowd at the Indiana Democratic Party […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
NASHVILLE, Ind. - Political analysts across the nation have their eyes peeled on Indiana - the center of the political universe this weekend - to see if momentum shifts away from Hillary Clinton and back to Barack Obama in the final hours before the crucial May 6 primary. The activities of the […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - I have never been a Clinton hater. When Bill Clinton was president, he produced budget surpluses, reformed welfare (as we knew it) and passed landmark trade legislation. In 1998, as he was being impeached, Osama bin Laden was declaring a fatwa against us. When I suggested to Lee Hamilton that […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Calling Hillary Clinton and John McCain’s call for a gas tax suspension a "political stunt," Barack Obama attempted to education consumers on the biggest contrasting issue before the May 6 Indiana and North Carolina primaries. At a press conference this morning in downtown Indianapolis, Obama said, "For too long politics has been about scoring points […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - A few hours after U.S. Sen. Barack Obama conducted a national press conference to denounce his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he conducted this phone interview with Howey Politics Indiana. We talked about his personal sacrifices in running, his relationship with Hoosiers, reaching out to Republicans, and possible roles that […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - By early this week, you could almost feel the air rushing out of Barack Obama’s campaign. While the Howey-Gauge Poll of April 23-24 had Obama with a narrow 47-45 percent lead over Hillary Clinton, later surveys, including an April 28 SurveyUSA Poll had Clinton surging to a 52-43 percent lead. […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By RYAN NEES
Howey Politics Indiana
KOKOMO - Yesterday’s announcement from the Clinton Campaign that it had secured the endorsements of 40 Indiana Democratic Party county chairs was the result of a months-long effort by Sen. Evan Bayh and state party officials to mobilize the party’s grassroots machinery in support of the New York senator.
The Clinton camp […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MARK SCHOEFF JR.
Howey Politics Indiana
WASHINGTON - Picking up the endorsement of Rep. Baron Hill (D-9th CD) six days before the Indiana primary provides Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, some cover against attacks that he is too liberal for Hoosier voters, even Democratic ones.
Hill’s move, however, immediately spurred the Republican congressional campaign arm to brand Hill […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
INDIANAPOLIS - WFBQ’s Bob & Tom Show conducted this interview with Sen. Hillary Clinton Wednesday morning.
WFBQ: I’m curious Senator, on the campaign trail; exactly how much sleep are you getting each night?
Clinton: Not enough. The closer you get to – good morning! Sen. Clinton campaigns in Kokomo Wednesday night. (HPI Photo by Ryan Nees)You know, […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Governor: Republican: Gov. Mitch Daniels. Democrat: Jim Schellinger, Jill Long Thompson. 2008 Outlook: Howey-Gauge Poll has Thompson leading Schellinger 45-27 percent. Slam dunk, right? Here’s how we assess this race. Both campaigns appear to be on similar footing on TV ads. Thompson is creaming Schellinger on earned media. The Schellinger campaign has been absolutely abysmal […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Thomas Friedman, New York Times: It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
CLINTON APPROVED MAGNEQUENCH SALE TO CHINA: In 1995, China National Non-Ferrous Metals, headquartered in Beijing, and San Huan New Material High-Tech Inc, funded by the Chinese government, joined with other interests to purchase the Anderson, Ind.-based Magnequench, which made Neo powder for use in magnets (ABC News). The two Chinese companies were headed by the […]
Brian A. Howey @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign announced the endorsements of 40 Democratic Party county chairs. Clinton is shown here campaigning in Kokomo Wednesday night. These party activists from every corner of the Hoosier State will mobilize voters for Hillary on May 6. In addition, Hillary received the endorsement of Mayor Robert Hurst of Princeton. With this endorsement, […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Barack and Michelle Obama walk to a round table meeting at Garfield Park on a brilliant spring Wednesday afternoon with Mike and Cheryl Fisher on Beech Grove. The Obamas and Fishers had lunch together in the Fisher home before the Garfield Park event. The two events show the shift in the Obama campaign away from […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 30, 2008 # One Comment
Just as Hillary Clinton seemed to be gaining momentum in Indiana in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy, U.S. Rep. Baron Hill endorsed Barack Obama for President today, citing his strength of character and ability to change the tone of Washington. "Some have advised me to be cautious, to wait and see which way […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - The historic Indiana Democratic presidential primary race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could well be decided by … Republicans. According to the Howey-Gauge Poll conducted April 23-24, entirely after the Clinton Pennsylvania primary victory, Hoosier Democrats are evenly split at 46-46 percent. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is in a […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh issued a sharply critical assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding Indiana’s voter ID law on Monday. "I am disappointed in the Supreme Court’s ruling," Bayh said in comments that come in the midst of the most intense Indiana political sequence in 40 years. "Unfortunately, it’s going to have the practical […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - When in doubt … in Indiana, you do what’s natural. You play basketball.
That summed up Barack Obama’s weekend strategy as the Hoosier state hangs in the balance with almost every poll showing his critical May 6 primary race with Hillary Clinton too close to call. Or, as we used to […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sources are indicating that U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth is under intense pressure from the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton to endorse her prior to the crucial May 6 Indiana primary. Democratic sources say that Ellsworth, a freshman from Evansville, and U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler are being targeted by Clinton, who is seeking super […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
NASHVILLE, Ind. - I cringed when I read the New York Times on Thursday. There, on page A20 under the headline "For Indiana Voters, talk of change may fall flat," were quotes from Karen Lasley of Kokomo, who said, "We are manufacturing workers, farmers, beer drinkers, gun owners and pickup drivers." Or […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Barack Obama conducted a press conference Friday morning at Joe’s Junction - a Phillips 66 station near the Indianapolis International Airport - and promised to find a permanent solution to the energy "crisis." It includes billions of dollars of investment in the green energy sector and doubled fuel efficiency standards. "Everywhere I go in Indiana […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“I feel the earth, move, under my feet …."
- Carole King, Tapestry
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
EVANSVILLE - In the very toe of the Hoosier State, which was rocked and rattled by an earthquake the previous week, Barack Obama was preparing to descend to the stage at Roberts Stadium. His move came in a state that in […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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‘I feel the earth, move, under my feet …."
- Carole King, Tapestry
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
EVANSVILLE - In the very toe of the Hoosier State, which was rocked and rattled by earthquakes for much of the previous week, Barack Obama was preparing to descend to the floor of Roberts Stadium. His move came in a state […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MARK CURRY
WASHINGTON - Every student of literature knows a great narrative boasts a crisis point, a turn of events that unfolds to a decisive end. In the drama that is the 2008 presidential campaign, Indiana Democrats may well deliver the final word on Hillary Clinton. If Barack Obama can win in Indiana Tuesday after […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
EVANSVILLE - On Tuesday, the last day before the total presidential eclipse arrived in Indiana, Jill Long Thompson was busy. She picked up the endorsements of State Reps. Charlie Brown, Dan Stevenson, Maria Candeleria Reardon, Joe Micon and Sheila Klinker, as well as State Sen. Karen Talian. Thompson called for more pressure […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Governor: Republican: Gov. Mitch Daniels. Democrat: Jim Schellinger, Jill Long Thompson. 2008 Outlook: So much for that "I’m not going to go there" stance on negative ads by Schellinger. His campaign began airing an ad attacking Thompson on Social Security, Medicare, and trade votes. Thompson media consultant Chris Sautter said, "Another false assertion is that […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MORTON J. MARCUS
INDIANAPOLIS - A friend of mine is a stock broker, a financial advisor, and an ethical person. He is deeply troubled these days because he feels he has failed his clients. The values of their portfolios have fallen, not drastically, but somewhat, enough to trouble them and my friend.
But my friend’s distress […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Rich James, Post-Tribune: I hope a beer at Bronko’s doesn’t fool anyone. When Hillary Clinton stopped for a shot and a beer Saturday night, she was doing little more than pandering to the working class. Anyone wearing a blue collar should have been offended. Hillary was trying to lay it on thick, just a few […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
THUNDEROUS WELCOME FOR OBAMA AT NEW ALBANY: Sen. Barack Obama told a thunderous crowd at Indiana University Southeast yesterday that he’s the best candidate to bring change and he’ll do it by spurning special interests and focusing on the needs of working Americans (Louisville Courier-Journal). As the nation’s political attention turned to Indiana — one […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After repeatedly vowing not to run a negative TV ad campaign, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Schellinger is doing just that. In an ad that began Wednesday, Schellinger called Jill Long Thompson "a Washington politician" who cut Social Security and Medicare and worked for "unfair trade deals that ship our jobs overseas." Thompson campaign media consultant […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama kicked off the final, sensational two weeks leading up to the May 6 Indiana presidential primary in Southwestern Indiana Tuesday night, shrugging off his defeat to Sen. Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. "Evansville is going to be so important," Obama told about 8,000 people at Roberts Stadium after they heard John Mellencamp […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Mrs. Jeanne White-Gender, the mother of the late-Ryan White - the young boy from Kokomo who became the human face of the AIDS epidemic - has endorsed the candidacy of Dr. Woody Myers for Indiana’s 7th Congressional District. As Indiana State Health Commissioner, Dr. Myers helped Ryan’s cause helping him get back into public school when intolerance had […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama will appear at Roberts Stadium in Evansville with his wife Michelle and Hoosier rock legend John Mellencamp at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night. The appeance comes as Obama will await results from the Pennsylvania primary where he is locked in an intense battle with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. Obama is also scheduled […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Democratic candidates for governor, in a joint appearance Sunday morning on WTHR-TV, traded jabs on the heels of the first negative television ad of the primary. The ad, which Jill Long Thompson’s campaign began airing Sunday morning, assails Jim Schellinger’s advocacy for property tax increases he sought in relation to projects his architecture firm managed. "Jim […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Former U.S. Sens. Sam Nunn and David Boren endorsed Barack Obama for president on Friday. Nunn (center), a partner with U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, explained, "America remains the strongest nation in the world, but we can only be successful in tackling our toughest problems if we gain cooperation […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
SPEEDWAY, Ind. - When Hillary Clinton walked into Allison Transmission Plant 12 last Saturday morning, the premise was that this would commence a cohesive three-city offensive on the issue of manufacturing, jobs and national security. Walking with her was U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh and the topics at hand had his fingerprints all over […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - When U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton walked into Allison Transmission Plant 12 Saturday morning, the premise was that this would commence a cohesive three-city offensive on the issue of manufacturing, jobs and national security. Walking with her was U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh and the topics at hand had his fingerprints all […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Just around the corner from the heart of Indiana - Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument on the circle - sits the Barack Obama presidential campaign headquarters. Heading there Tuesday afternoon, the anticipation was of a campaign that was coming off its roughest patch since the New Hampshire primary. John Goodman’s offer […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MARK CURRY
WASHINGTON - While delivering the keynote speech before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, a junior senator little known outside his home state of Illinois told cheering delegates that the true genius of America is "a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles." The philosophy behind the title of that speech, "The […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
As Jim Schellinger took the stage at Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne Tuesday night for his only scheduled debate with Jill Long Thompson, he had to know that time was running out. Just a day before, a SurveyUSA poll showed him trailing Thompson 46-38 percent. Now he was appearing on her home turf […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Governor: Republican: Gov. Mitch Daniels. Democrat: Jim Schellinger, Jill Long Thompson. 2008 Outlook: Thompson was endorsed by Teamsters Locals 142 (Gary), Local 414 (Fort Wayne), Local 215 (Evansville) as well as Local 89 and Local 783 in Louisville. "At this critical time for our state and nation, our members felt it was important to support […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Rich James, Post-Tribune: Having been around the block a time or two, let me tell you — experience isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Experience, in most cases, means you are older than the other guy or gal. Politicians say experience counts, but they don’t often say for what. We’ve heard more talk than […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
MICHELLE OBAMA SAYS SHE’S NOT ELITIST: Michelle Obama said Wednesday she is a product of a working-class background and rejected characterizations of her and her husband as elitist. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has tried to deflect criticism of his comments that people in small towns cling to religion and guns out of bitterness over […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Rep. Andre Carson broke the Hoosier super delegate log jam of indecision this morning, endorsing Barack Obama for president. "He is an individual who can lead the country with positive leadership," Carson said in a conference call at 9 a.m. "He is a new generation of leadership." Carson was asked if his endorsement would […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
Democrats Jill Long Thompson and Jim Schellinger sparred over ethics and negative ads at Tuesday’s debate at IPFW. Schellinger repeatedly reminded the audience "I’m not a politician" while pushing his Pickup Indiana plan. Asked if they would go negative in campaign ads, Schellinger said, "I’m not a politician. I won’t go on […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Gov. Mitch Daniels’ re-election campaign reported $5.2 million cash on hand today. Daniels’ campaign reported raising $1,546,061.02 from 2,808 contributions in the first quarter of 2008 in a report filed with state election officials Tuesday morning. "Governor Daniels has a tremendous record of accomplishment and a positive vision for the future," Campaign Manager Eric Holcomb […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MORTON J. MARCUS
INDIANAPOLIS - This is not a political endorsement. It is, however, a cry of outrage that a candidate for President of the United States is attacked for speaking the truth. Barack Obama has been quoted as saying, “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Schellinger called for a separate education budget and would tie university endowments to lower in-state tuition with the rate of inflation. The plan focuses on five area: working with public schools; creating a consistent source of education funding by putting education first; attracting and retaining world-class teachers; making higher education affordable; […]
Brian A. Howey @ April 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Former Indiana congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr., a 15-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced his endorsement of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama for president today. In his endorsement, Jacobs cited Obama’s commitment to uniting the country and ending special-interest influence i