Oh, well. Easy come, easy go:
It's been fun for all of us news and political junkies to see Indiana so involved in this year's primary because it may be another 40 years before it happens again (unless, of course, we move toward a rotating, regional primary — a move we would support).
Sadly, though, by Wednesday, the Obama and Clinton folks will be gone and it's unlikely they will return to Indiana with such a strong presence by the November election.
I can see it now. It's the beginning of fall, and there is a nip in the air. All we have to look forward to is a normal old election just like all the others. Hillary and Barack and Bill and Chelsea and Michele never call anymore. They don't write -- not even a postcard. Wasn't this true love after all?
We turn on the TV for the evening news, and Indiana is never mentioned, unless there's a flood somewhere or one of our politcians does or says something spectacularly stupid. We're not the "state that matters" anymore, or the "make or break state" or the "tiebreaker state" or the "showdown state." We're back to being just Indiana, land of corn and basketball and the Indianapolis 500. We'll have to drink our shots and beers and cling to our guns and churches in obscurity once more.
All we can hope for now is that Hillary wins the nomination and picks Evan for veep. Psst, Evan, repeat after me: p-o-t-a-t-o-e.
