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Anybody tired of hearing the mantra of “change” over and over without ever hearing what that change would be? For the last month we’ve heard the same empty message of change from presidential candidates and gubernatorial candidates, all of them Democrats, but have we ever asked ourselves what that change would be other than a different person in that particular office? So what is “change” exactly? Republican State Representative Jackie Walorski discusses in her recent blog post on Capitol Letters, what that represents.

It’s been fascinating to watch and listen to the Presidential candidates talk about “change”. Barack Obama is basing his entire campaign on “change”. I’m not sure if he’s talking about “change” for the sake of “change” or what, because he’s never really spelled out what exactly he would do to “change” anything in this country.

But, it’s equally interesting to read the editorials of several newspapers around Indiana. In Northern Indiana, the newspaper tone has been instructing it’s faithful readers to “embrace change” and to vote against Hoosier incumbents in November. Is that “change” for the sake of “change”? As a legislator, I’ve been involved in helping move Indiana forward in many areas. Indiana now leads the Midwest in job creation, we have our own “Big 3″ auto makers, employing thousands of Hoosiers. Our State has gone from bankrupt to having a cash balance on hand. We went from one of the worst child abuse States to one of the best in child protection. These “changes” weren’t easy.

Read the rest of Representative Walorski’s post here.

What a mess the Democrats are in right now. Hillary was supposed to win Indiana by a large enough total so that that nagging voice to concede in her head (i.e. the DNC) would go away and she could continue to campaign for president. And “Diamond Jim” Schellinger “Rocks!” was supposed to win the gubernatorial primary and make JLT go gently into that good night. Well, neither happened. Now post Indiana primary, Hillary is furthering her self induced national embarrassment by issuing racially insensitive remarks to USA Today, and the state Democrats are stuck with a candidate for governor who is broke and no one in the party structure even wanted running, much less winning.

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Lest we think that there would be a lag between the primary and the race for the Governor’s mansion…

I saw this tonight on TV. Thoughts? I think it does a nice job laying out the positives from the first term.

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The Indy Star reports:

Jim Schellinger, the Indianapolis architect who fought a campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor to a razor-thin finish last night, conceded the race to Jill Long Thompson this afternoon.

“Jim Schellinger just phoned Jill to concede,” Thompson communications director Jeff Harris said.

With all but two precincts counted out of 5,230 precincts across the state, Long Thompson led by 7,102 votes, according to unofficial figures from The Associated Press, which earlier declared her the winner.

Which allows me to use this again!

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Republican or Democrat, last night was an exciting time to be a politico in Indiana! “Chaos” was out in force yesterday with many Republican voters crossing over to vote in the Democrat primary. Turnout was extraordinarily high all across the state, but Republican ballots cast were way low, especially in typically red counties.

What was more interesting to watch last night wasn’t so much how the presidential race shook down between Hillary and Obama, but how Operation Chaos played it’s role in down ballot races. Incumbents and challengers alike will all claim Chaos hurt them the most. The thing is, they’re right. Everybody is going to have their particular spin. In the 5th CD, Congressman Dan Burton emerged victorious yet again (no surprise there), but with his lowest re-elect numbers ever. A good portion of his supporters are Rush Limbaugh listening conservatives who probably took Rush’s advice to switch over and cause havoc with the Democrats primary. With the intertwining history that Limbaugh and Burton have had with the Clinton’s over the years, for conservatives to cross over and pull the lever for a Clinton seems a bit absurd. But when couched with the idea that a vote for Hillary only prolongs the agony of Democrats, all of the sudden, it becomes quite a palatable choice.

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Early this morning JLT beat Diamond Jim in a very close Democrat gubernatorial primary fight. This is all I have to say about that.

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Oh, I guess this means we’ll be “welcoming” Jen back to the blogosphere soon too.

It seems that Diamond Jim Schellinger doesn’t like Jill Long Thompson pointing out that he made his fortune on the backs of Indiana property tax payers.

So his company is threatening to sue her.

Why?

Because her campaign dared to use photos of buildings that he and his firm designed.

Photos.

As if you could be sued by dozens of architects for merely taking pictures of the skyline of New York City; don’t tell the folks that made the intro for Law & Order.

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Last of the four new ads being released by the Daniels campaign.

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Governor Daniels is releasing four new campaign ads.  We’ll show them to you one by one over the coming days here on Hoosier Access.  The first one is on affordable prescription drugs.

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Just released from SurveyUSA:

3 Weeks to Indiana Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, Long Thompson Has Momentum: In a Democratic Primary for Governor of Indiana today, 04/14/08, 3 weeks till votes are counted, Jill Long Thompson pulls ahead of Jim Schellinger and leads now by 8 points, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WHAS-TV Louisville KY and WCPO-TV Cincinnati OH. Today, it’s Long Thompson 46%, Schellinger 38%. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released two weeks ago, Long Thompson is up 7, Schellinger is down 3. Long Thompson, who represented Indiana’s 4th Congressional District from 1988 through 1994, has made inroads among men, where Indianapolis architect Schellinger had led by 21, now leads by 5. Among women, Long Thompson had led by 13, now leads by 20. In greater Indianapolis, Schellinger had led by 9, now leads by 3. In Southern Indiana, Schellinger had led by 22, now is tied. Among white voters, Schellinger had led by 3, now trails by 5. The winner of the primary will face incumbent Republican Governor Mitch Daniels. 16% of likely voters are undecided. The outcome is anything but certain.

Source: SurveyUSA