INDIANA WIRE
Indiana to cover costs of PSAT for high schoolers
FSSA drops 30-day food stamp processing proposal
NORTHERN INDIANA
Gary Post-Tribune
Ind. Republicans head home ready for general election fight
IDEM confident Lake, Porter meet air standard
EDITORIAL: Area police academy needs fixed funding
Times of Northwest Indiana
Waste panel cuts '09 budget, nixes pay raises
Ex-county commissioner heading state group
NIPSCO cost shift alarms consumer groups
EDITORIAL: IURC should let NIPSCO tear down its Mitchell plant
South Bend Tribune
Palin wasn't an unknown to local father and son
St. Joseph County Commissioners look at cuts up close
Local Republicans watch as McCain accepts party's nomination
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
State won't force faster food stamp applications
EDITORIAL: Commissioners and abortion
Lafayette Journal and Courier
Anxious time at home for veterans
EDITORIAL: VP picks will be interesting to watch
CENTRAL INDIANA
Indianapolis Star
City: Tax hike covered budget gap
State won't finish Reagan parkway
Obama plans stop in Terre Haute
COLUMN: McCain revs up the choir
EDITORIAL: Taxpayers taken for ride over public safety pledge
WRTV (Indianapolis)
Poll: Hoosiers Support McCain, Daniels
Anderson Herald Bulletin
Pendleton Council mulls rate hike
Muncie Star Press
Audit, investigation centers on Delaware County surveyor
Delaware County Council says no to new positions for now
EDITORIAL: Children of candidates should be off limits
Terre Haute Tribune-Star
Young Republicans cheer nomination
ISU student: Convention is 'electric'
Barack Obama to visit Terre Haute on Saturday
Bennett proposes salary increases of about 3 percent for many Terre Haute employees
SOUTHERN INDIANA
Evansville Courier & Press
Palin sparks local GOP rush on merchandise
Louisville Courier-Journal
INDIANA WIRE
Obama campaign doesn't fear loss of Clinton voters
Long Thompson supports 5th year of high school
NORTHERN INDIANA
Gary Post-Tribune
Region's delegates show support for Palin
Visclosky visits VU meteorology department
Lawmaker wants school year to start in September, not August
Clay thanks Barden, but city still in crisis
Times of Northwest Indiana
Democrat calls for optional fifth year of high school
Fate of county public works in question
EDITORIAL: School board's delayed action tackled Valparaiso's taxpayers
South Bend Tribune
Local young women mixed on Palin pick
St. Joseph County prosecutor's budget targeted
Will Indiana be a battleground state?
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Obama envisions Indiana in blue
Candidates float education ideas
EDITORIAL: Ground it, governor
Lafayette Journal and Courier
City Council: Be nice or you're out
CENTRAL INDIANA
Indianapolis Star
Funds for 100 new officers diverted
Lawrence mayor asks council for $15,000 raise
Different party, same theme: change
Hoosier GOP celebrate VP candidate
COLUMN: Palin feels the love from GOP
EDITORIAL: Adding insult to injury, leaving debt unpaid
Anderson Herald Bulletin
Muncie Star Press
Sheriff seeks more manpower, cars and money
Council must make big cuts to 2009 budget
Richmond Palladium-Item
Convention speech by Pence canceled
EDITORIAL: City smoking code needs wise balance
Terre Haute Tribune-Star
Gov candidate eyes private funds for 21st Century program
SOUTHERN INDIANA
Evansville Courier & Press
Delegates 'in awe' of McCain's choice
Candidate seeks more graduates
EDITORIAL: Abortion ordinances
Louisville Courier-Journal
Sarah Palin's vice presidential pre-nomination acceptance speech was supposed to excite the base and prove that she can lead our nation.
All she's proven over the last 45 minutes is that she can read off a TelePrompTer for long stretches of time.
Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney ruled this night. Palin should have quit while she was ahead.
The lipstick comment? That was funny.
The endless barrage of Why You Shouldn't Think I Don't Have Experience, Here, Let Me Name Some Foreign Countries And Talk About My Family A Little Bit More talking points has now gone well into the 11 o'clock news and put countless Americans to sleep.
The one thing Palin had going for her -- once you discard the ethics investigation, the pregnant kid, the earmarks, the "Bridge to Nowhere" double talk, the secession talk, her hubby's DUI and other yet-to-be-aired baggage potentially going against her -- was mystique. She's new. She's different. She comes from a place most of us will never visit.
The best way to kill mystique is with overexposure. Congratulations, Team McCain. You poured on the dull and showed America that your trophy vice can talk and talk and talk us all into a haze of dispassion.
The more that Hillary Clinton's primary supporters learn about Sarah Palin, the less likely they are to support John McCain.* By the end of the survey, a 55% majority of Clinton's voters say that Palin's inclusion on the ticket makes them less likely to vote for John McCain (just 9% say her presence on the ticket makes them more likely to support McCain).
* Obama goes from a 44-percentage-point lead (69% to 25%) to a 54-percentage-point lead (75% to 21%) over McCain among these Clinton voters as they learn more about Sarah Palin's background and her positions on core issues.Finally, as these survey findings confirm, the Democratic presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden continues to benefit from strong support of women voters. By an 11-percentage-point margin (52% to 41%), women voters support the Obama-Biden ticket over the McCain-Palin ticket, which places this Democratic ticket well ahead of Kerry-Edward's performance among women voters in 2004 (+3 points Kerry-Edwards over Bush-Cheney).
You can read the rest of the poll results here.
My friends on the right are cheering the rather dull speech given last night at the Republican National Convention by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Warsville). Lieberman used to be a Democrat, but he [hearts] the ongoing conflict in Iraq and John McCain's support for it, so he decided to switch sides and root for Republicans this year.
That's fine, but there ain't no coming back.
That's not to say that you can't, as a partisan, disagree with things that happen on your side of the aisle. But saying that Jill Long Thompson's campaign ads are terrible or that City-County Council Democrats have an image problem is not the same as endorsing Mitch Daniels or running as a Republican.
Lieberman made his bed; now he gets to lie in it. Maybe his decision to play on the GOP team will inspire some in the middle, but I'd argue the issue that he's championing -- George W. Bush's endless war -- isn't a terribly popular one.
Whatever happens, he's either going to be a Republican or stuck somewhere in the middle. I don't think there are too many Democrats who'd accept him back with open arms after he cheated on them and bragged about it on national television.
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