Comments on Advance Indiana™: GOP Calls McCain Challenge "Hatchet Job"

It's amazing the change in Thomas' writing after h...

2008-02-24T19:31:00.000-05:00

It's amazing the change in Thomas' writing after he started getting paid by the Democrats. It's quite unfortunate. I thought he was doing a good job at one point. The recent post with an old photo of Donny Osmond with the title, "Jon Elrod is sooooo diskliked", demonstrates how his site has simply turned from a serious blog into a grade school playground. He was much better when he blogged independently without a political master.

Thanks, Advance Indiana for calling out Thomas Coo...

2008-02-24T19:18:00.000-05:00

Thanks, Advance Indiana for calling out Thomas Cook on this bullshit. I'm from Bloomington and know the little backstabbing, two-faced guy very well. He pretends to be some citizen blogger when in reality he is being paid by the Democratic Party to blog. It is impossible for the guy to be objective on anything between a Republican and a Democrat. His credibility is extremely low in my opinion.

If you think the Election Commission will throw Mc...

2008-02-22T18:24:00.000-05:00

If you think the Election Commission will throw McCain off the ballot, you're dreaming. In fact, I'd be willing to wager a court would be reluctant to do as well.

AR

The arcane system of putting names on the ballot d...

2008-02-22T08:49:00.000-05:00

The arcane system of putting names on the ballot does not well serve any political party or candidate for office, much less the people of Indiana. It is badly in need of overhauling, particularly in view of modern electronic balloting, which does not require machines to be set up with every party and candidate in a finite set of rows and columns.

Nick the Dem

Go Obama!

2008-02-21T22:36:00.000-05:00

Go Obama!

What Jay didn't tell you is that the McCain petiti...

2008-02-21T20:30:00.000-05:00

What Jay didn't tell you is that the McCain petitions spent four unsupervised hours with Republicans at the Election Division after the complaint was filed.

The tally was at 496 yesterday when a young Democrat counted the signatures -- twice -- in the presence of the Republican IED co-counsel.

Something changed between then and this morning. Weird.

Either way, they were short last week when Carter and Clark filed the petitions with Rokita.

It does show how uninspired the Republicans are (m...

2008-02-21T19:41:00.001-05:00

It does show how uninspired the Republicans are (me included) Point is, it looks like he barely got the signatures to get on the ballot no matter how you count it. Does that sound like a "frontrunner?"

Jill did hahve trouble in Marion County. She bare...

2008-02-21T19:41:00.000-05:00

Jill did hahve trouble in Marion County. She barely made it.

I was not aware folks were "misplacing" her petitions. But as of late afternoon the day before the deadline, the Marion County Voter Reg people were busily tallying up Jill's totals, and sweating about her totals...they were either neutral or pro-Schellinger, but the Long supporters were heavy on the phones pressuring the locals to certify those petitions. And the 7th CD numbers were tight.

3rd parties should be complaining about ballot acc...

2008-02-21T18:23:00.000-05:00

3rd parties should be complaining about ballot access requirements, as theirs are much stricter. You need bout 33,000 signatures to run for a statewide seat in the general election. 500 per Congressional district would be cake.