Archive for November 4th, 2008

While we are still waiting on many results to come in, it appears that Obama will carry the Presidency, Mitch is crushing JLT, the Indiana State House appears to be remaining in Democrat control, the Democrats are gaining seats in the Senate (but don’t appear to be getting the magic 60 number), and there seems to be fairly little change in the House of Representatives. So here are some random thoughts that I have about what I have seen today.

• It is not a good thing when the core of our party is not who picks our nominee
• When we let the “country club” Republicans run the party, we lose
• Running a campaign on the basis of “I’m not the other guy” is not effective
• The American people have forgotten what the cost of big government is; they do not remember socialism and communism
• We cannot rely on “disaffected” Democrats to bring in the vote for Republicans, they must be won
• Scurrilous charges need to be answered
• The Democrats ground game has caught up to the Republican ground game
• Polling was largely correct
• George W Bush was the gift that kept on giving to the Democrats
• It will now be a huge challenge to regain control of “voting irregularities” as ACORN, etc. will be largely unchecked for at least two more years
• We are no longer a racist country, right?
• If you are going to mess up campaign finance, you might get burned by it
• Indiana voters vote on personalities and not on ideas
• Reapportionment and redistricting in 2011 will be critical for the future of governance
• My hopes of working toward fundamental education reform will have to wait for at least two more years
• The reaction to this election is NOT to move to the left

Update from Hendricks County, Indiana.

Lincoln Twshp - Precinct 2
Brownsburg, Indiana
Polling location: American Legion Hall, Main Street

As a Precinct Committeeman and my wife Ronna being my Vice, we were there this morning to open the poll and get things set up (coffee for workers, breakfast… etc.)

The line started forming at 5:20am. When the poll officially opened at 6am this morning, there were more than 60/70 people in line. The line wrapped the room and stretched out into the parking lot.

It was an incredible sight. Never before in my life time have I seen a line like that to start before the poll opened!

More throughout the day…

In my letter to the editor last week, I addressed the silly claim by the Indiana Daily Student that Mitch Daniels is not “running on a platform of serious change or upheaval.” The last four years have been all about change. But there is another aspect to that editorial that deserves further examination.

While I believe Sarah Palin was an excellent choice by Senator McCain and strengthened the Republican ticket, there have been legitimate questions raised about her experience. The same concerns about experience cannot be legitimately raised regarding Becky Skillman, a former president of the Association of Indiana Counties and a state senator for 12 years. In fact, not only does Skillman’s experience in state government dwarf that of Jill Long Thomspon, she had more experience that Mitch Daniels did in 2004.

What if Daniels had chosen Lawrence County state representative Brent Steele to be his running mate instead of Skillman, a Lawrence County state senator? Would the IDS have compared Steele to Palin? I doubt it. That is why I referred to the attack on Skillman as “borderline misogynistic”.

The Polls Are Now Open!! (In the Eastern Time Zone of Indiana)

As many of us Directors and Contributors to Hoosier Access have many assorted duties on Election Day including poll workers, and preparing for the election results show after the polls close.

So we likely won’t be around much to provide updates throughout the day.

This is your Election Day 2008 Live Thread. It will run from 6 AM to 6 PM.

Let us know how your voting experience went, or if you noticed any shenanigans. You can email us tonight at Election2008 [AT] HoosierAccessRadio.com

If you see the post below, Steve Dalton will have updates on his blog with what shapes up to be a lot of good info from NW Indiana.

I’m sure there will be tons of activity here, especially as results come in tonite, but if you have links during the day today please bring them over to Red County - Porter County Indiana site.  I’ll be live blogging there and trying to collect as much news, fraud problems, and exit polls as possible.

You are all welcome to leave links to your own posts, may be a nice way to funnel more national readers back here or to your separate blogs.