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Even Jill-Bob knows Dennie Ray II got his heiny handed to him by Becky Skillman at the Fair Debate.

Your humble correspondents from Hoosier Access are not able to attends drubbing, I mean, debate between LG Becky Skillman and Dennie Ray II at the State Fair Grounds, but friends of the site, Kurt and Kristen Luidhardt are there and following the action.  Make sure to check out their live blog and twitter feeds.

(why do I get the feeling this debate will resemble the debate bewteen Dick Cheney and John Edwards?)

Debate coverage via Twitter

Debate coverage via live blog

“No polyps today, Miss Jill.”

(Previously, of course, he routinely told Speaker Pat “The Hair” Bauer that.)

From the Indy Star:

An Indiana State Fair exhibit promoting education about colorectal cancer includes a 40-foot model of the human colon that visitors can crawl through.

The free exhibit at the Clarian Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion on Aug. 6-17 is dubbed “Colossal Colon” and depicts healthy colon tissue as well as tissue with hemorrhoids, cancerous and non-cancerous polyps, Crohn’s disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis and various stages of colon cancer.

Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer and will cause nearly 50,000 deaths in the United States this year, according to the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, which is co-sponsoring the exhibit with Clarian.

For the second time in as many weeks (first here), former state Democrat party mouthpiece, Jen Wagner, has blogged about the irrelevance of the LG choice (read: Dennie Ray Oxley II) on the gubernatorial ticket.  And she’s not alone.  Other prominent liberal blogs are picking up where she’s leaving off.  I would imagine it’s hard to embrace your guv candidate when trying to run hard in the opposite direction from her LG choice.  What are they ashamed of?  Why are they running away?  Reminds me of the Tale of “Brave” Sir Robin.

Survey USA has a new poll out, and it shows some very interesting results in both the presidential race and the gubernatorial race (presidential crosstabs here).

Incumbent Republican Governor Mitch Daniels leads Democratic challenger Jill Long Thompson by 5 points, according to this latest SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WHAS-TV Louisville and WCPO-TV Cincinnati.

Today, it’s Daniels and Lt. Governor Becky Skillman 50%, Long Thompson and running mate Dennie Oxley 45%. Among men, Daniels leads by 8 points; among women, Daniels leads by 3. 15% of Republicans cross over to vote for the Democratic ticket; 22% of Democrats cross over to vote for the Republican ticket. Independents favor Daniels by 3 points.

On its face, that’s a typical result, right?

Another poll, another lead for Mitch. Even JLT’s polling shows Mitch in the lead.

So why are certain Democrat blogs so happy and joyful?

In a word? Schadenfreude; Wagner and Cook never liked JLT anyway.

They’re also delusional (you don’t merely “cling” to a 5 point lead when even your candidate’s polling shows your opponent ahead, along with every other poll; their spin is truly hilarious to behold).

Let’s look for a moment at the polling sample.

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Just found these two gems. I don’t know which one is Dennie Ray Oxley II’s old job he gave up for his destined ill fated run for Gov Lite, but maybe you or someone you know is qualified to fill Dennie’s shoes.

Beam Longest & Neff Job #1

Beam Longest & Neff Job #2

Sometimes you have to wonder if the Democrats ever really believed they had a shot at beating Mitch Daniels. If they did, those faint hopes grew extremely dim once JLT officially beat the establishment’s chosen candidate, Jim Schellinger. Their hopes were all but dashed once Dennie Ray Oxley II joined the Team JLT and her merry band of fire baton twirlers.

It seems that once Dennie Ray opens his mouth, something fun for the righty blogosphere spits out. First, it was him saying that his fingerprints are on each of the bills that go through the House during the session. As Mike McDaniel rightly noted on last week’s Indiana Week in Review, it’s only because Pat Bauer told him to physically carry a bill from one place to another.

But Dennie Ray’s latest incident is enough to make even us chuckle even more with delight and a person I consider a good friend (even though he blogs for the other side of the aisle), Bil Browning, captured it all in his coverage of the State Democrat Convention when Dennie Ray and Baton Twirler Jill spoke to the Stonewall Democrats Caucus (their version of Log-Cabins for those who may not know), in his write up for the Huffington Post. Now, fellow Director and also a good friend, Mike Jezierski also covered it last night, but let’s dig into Dennie Ray’s statements, especially those regarding SJR-7 a little deeper shall we?

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Professional Acquaintance of Hoosier Access, Bil Browning of Bilerico, wrote this piece in The Huffington Post:

“[Jill Long Thompson] opened with talk about getting Indiana back on track and continued on to talk about civil rights. “No matter what caucus you talk to, civil rights are a top priority. For some caucuses it becomes more important. We don’t need more people who are on the wrong track when it comes to interpreting the Constitution and what God wants,” she said. “You will have a friend in the Governor’s office every hour of the day.”

When she introduced Rep Oxley, he didn’t get the same standing ovation Long Thompson had received. He started out talking about the economy and segued into his experience and his vote on SJR-7.

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From a press conference that took place this week:

Reporter: How have you had experience dealing with the economy in the legislature?

Oxley: Every bill in the House the last 6-8 years I have had fingerprints on each bill. Of all those bills described economic bills, my fingerprints were on them.

Looks like Oxley’s economic “fingerprints” are invisible.

From 1999-2008 (his whole legislative career) Oxley was not on a single bill (author, co-author, sponsor, or co-sponsor) that passed through the Economic Development Committee. In fact, he wasn’t even on a bill that didn’t pass or even get a hearing in that committee. The vast majority of bills he’s had his name on have gone through Education, Finance, Roads, or Ways and Means.

While it’s nice to see he’s actually doing something in the House, even there he’s been far from a leader. According to Frugal Hoosiers:

* 51 bills introduced
* 6 passed into law
* 33 received no hearing
* 12 received a hearing and ultimately failed

On the one hand, you have a tall guy in a nice suit that can’t speak in public worth a darn and has to read from a script (and even then does a bad job).

And on the other, you have a lady with blond hair who happens to be just about the smartest person in any room.

Appearances can be deceptive; I know who I’d prefer to have as lieutenant governor.

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