Archive for September 17th, 2007

Here are the results from the Peterson-Ballard poll:

Source: WISH-TV 

More Troubling statistics for Peterson after the jump-

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Hat Tip Advance Indiana

Jim Shella offers a teaser on his blog about a new WISH-TV poll on the Indianapolis mayoral race which will be released during tonight’s 6:00 p.m. news broadcast. The poll will show Peterson in the lead, but Shella’s hinting some of the numbers may be surprising. According to one source, the poll will show Peterson leading Ballard by a 52%-40% margin. Shella writes on his blog:

Who’s leading in the race for Mayor of Indianapolis?

Bart Peterson is the answer, but when we reveal the findings of the new WISH TV Indiana Poll on 24 Hour News 8 at 6 you may be surprised by some of the numbers.

Voters clearly don’t like some of Peterson’s policies.

The numbers will confirm Greg Ballard can beat Peterson. The question is whether certain Republicans who’ve been doing everything they can to hinder rather than help Ballard’s campaign will get behind him at the last minute.

No would have expected a candidate with practically no money, virtually no party support and practically no campaign organization could be doing so well! Well is he? I guess Jim Shella will enlighten us all this evening. But with all that’s wrong with Indy right now, no other incumbent appears to be damaged goods like Bart Peterson. Hopefully you’ve seen the campaign ads (are they?) below. But Ballard needs all the help he can get and if the state and county parties can’t get off their duffs to help this guy, then I guess it had to be up to the blogs. Then again, maybe, just maybe, if the numbers look really good, they will do something rather than nothing. Maybe.

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Very soon, Baron Hill will know whether he can sleep soundly or can look forward to another fourteen months of sleepless nights (likely culminating in having to go back to working as a “senior advisor” for a big Washington lobbying firm).

The former congressman has been making the rounds to local events (like the Harrison County Fair), perhaps testing the waters.

In an interview in the Courier-Journal on Sunday, he told Lesley Stedman that he would soon make a decision on running for Indiana’s 9th District seat again and would announce that decision sometime in early October.

From the Courier-Journal:

GOP’s Sodrel plays it close on 2008 run for Congress

INDIANAPOLIS — Republican Mike Sodrel made an appearance at a Bloomington GOP event last week and — according to some who attended — sounded very much like a candidate for Congress.

But on Friday, the three-time candidate and one-time winner of the 9th District U.S. House seat said he won’t make an announcement — one way or the other — until the first week in October. He said that’s the latest it would be wise to wait.

“I need to do it early enough that I can get started or early enough that someone else get can started,” Sodrel said by phone from his home.

As you might expect, this is a widely anticipated decision. Sodrel won the seat the last time the election coincided with a presidential race — in 2004.

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These Greg Ballard commercials appear to have been released recently online. I’m not sure if they are ‘official’.

HatTip: IndyUndercover