More trouble with Indiana voting machines:
A voting machine company is working to fix a software glitch on 5,000 machines in Indiana that prevents voters from casting a straight-party ballot.
Officials with the Indiana Election Commission were upset that MicroVote General Corp. did not tell them sooner about the software problem. The general election is Nov. 7.
A very small story in the Indianapolis Star, but I'm guessing it will sending shockwaves through the whole state:
It may have seemed lately that the Chicago City Council, doing things like banning goose liver and saying no to Wal-Mart, is responsible for the silliest, most irresponsible government in the country. But here comes the California attorney general to claim the prize for his state:
The state attorney general's attempts to stop automated phone calls is getting a lot of coverage, mostly because he's a Republican going after a Republican group and because of who that group is:
Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter filed a lawsuit yesterday against a national political organization, accusing it of making illegal automated phone calls to voters in the 9th Congressional District.
I'm not sure how much the popularity of someone not on the ballot matters, but Republicans are probably right to worry more about the poll numbers of Mitch Daniels than about President Bush and his Iraq war policies:
In the telephone survey of 800 likely voters, WISH-TV found that nearly a quarter of Hoosiers rated his performance as poor and a third rated him as only fair.
The Indiana Licensed Beverage Association is having a series of public meetings to put pressure on the General Assembly to legalize video gambling machines. And here's a prediction from someone who should know:
Somehow, I let this get by me last week. I very pleased with the progress of the Daniels administration, as graded by Gov. Daniels himself in the latest of his six-months report cards:
Roughly 64 percent of the measured categories were defined in the report as needing improvement or unsatisfactory during the first six months of this year, compared with 73 percent in the previous six months. The report covering Daniels' first six months in office in 2005 rated 87 percent in those areas.
Maybe there will be a woman on the Democratic presidential ticket. That doesn't mean it has to be Hillary:
The critical thing is that women are both planning ahead and planning for contingencies. Hillary may or may not run; I think she will, but not everyone agrees with me.
Hillary may or may not win the nomination; I think she will, but there are any number of scenarios in which she could lose one or two early contests, an anti-Hillary movement could develop, and someone else could take off.
I think this is true:
Democratic insiders, who months ago thought their chances of winning a majority in the House were no better than even, and that the Senate was a lost cause, have become far more optimistic. Now, they say, winning the House is a lock, and the Senate is within reach.
You know the old saying -- he who walks in middle of the road is in danger of getting hit by cars going in both directions. Indiana Rep. Mike Pence is trying to walk that very fine line on immigration and, surprise, surprise, is getting frustrated at having to dodge all the traffic:
