Archive for November 2nd, 2008

Nothing says lovin’ like gutting an industry.

But before you listen to the audio of Barack Obama and his radical views on coal, first a few facts concerning coal as it relates to Indiana, courtesy of the Indiana Coal Council:

Indiana Coal Production since 2004 and where in Indiana coal is mined:
2007 - 34,231,151 tons
2006 - 34,715,610 tons
2005 - 34,460,052 tons
2004 - 35,240,514 tons

The post on Red State notes that it’s odd that this is the only portion of the interview with the San Fransisco Chronicle that has been released, but as Moe Lane puts it “Live by the avoidance of transparency, die by the avoidance of transparency.”

(H/T for the clip goes to Red State)

Saw this on Election Journal:

Found: 2000 people registered in Indiana and Florida from one county

November 2, 2008 by Soren

The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette compared the Allen County, Indiana voter file to the Florida voter file and found 2,000 probable overlaps with the same name and birthday:

The Journal Gazette compared the list of 222,000 active registered voters in Allen County with the list of more than 12 million registered voters in Florida and found that 2,172 registrations have the same first and last names, middle names or initials and the same birth dates and are listed as active, eligible voters in both places.

This could be very significant. Both Florida and Indiana are close states, and Allen County contains a significant portion of the votes in IN-03, where Congressman Mark Souder is in a close re-election race.

How many more of these are there? How many have voted?

Recall that when the Indiana voter-ID law went to Supreme Court, one of the plaintiffs was Faye Buis-Ewing, who was registered in both Indiana and Florida and was fraudulently claiming homestead tax exemptions in both states.

Encouraging news….

From the AP:

A new statewide poll shows GOP candidate Greg Zoeller for attorney general and Tony Bennett for superintendent of public instruction lead their Democratic rivals.

The WISH-TV Indiana Poll finds Zoeller leading Democratic attorney general candidate Linda Pence 51 percent to 39 percent. The same poll finds Bennett leading Democrat Richard Wood 45 percent to 39 percent in the race for superintendent of public instruction.

The poll was taken Oct. 24 through Tuesday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Wood has gained some ground on Bennett since a similar poll taken Sept. 29 through Oct. 3 showed Bennett with a 36 percent to 29 percent lead.