Lesley Stedman Weidenbener has a column entitled “Governor’s race is a tale of two economies.” She notes that the Governor’s ads paint a picture of Indiana as having a great economy (thanks, of course, to the Governor’s magnificent leadership.) Challenger Jill Long Thompson paints a picture of Indiana as having a sputtering economy (thanks, of course, to the Governor’s horrible leadership.)
This is one of those lies, damned lies, and statistics situations. One’s sense of the truth of the matter is going to come from one’s own experience with the economy. “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?” I don’t think things are going that well for Joe Sixpack just about now, so whatever benefits the Governor’s statistics reflect must be going elsewhere. Whether Long Thompson can capitalize on this remains to be seen.
Thompson’s already got all my family and friends vote.I’m always taken by surprise by some people’s willingness to believe governor Daniels down home “AW SHUCKS” routine.He’s hardly the down home fellow he makes himself out to be and in fact is a man of substanial wealth not that there’s anything wrong with that to coin a SEINFELD phrase but don’t pretend to be what you’re not.
I’ve never seen him as “down home”. He’s always been a Lilly exec to me. Still, I voted for him last time, and I think I will again. I don’t think Thompson has a clue.
But, yes, he is a lying ass. At least I know what I’m getting, and I find I agree with more that he is done than I disagree, even though I disagree with a lot.
Most folks I run into think that about him(down home folksy).We just can’t bring ourselves to vote for a man who divided our counties ties to each other with his DST.Families have been severely burdened by living and working in different time zones down here.DST is fine if you don’t have to cross a time zone line twice a day to and from work.Not to mention we’re not in the correct geographic time zone but lets not get into that anymore.
Yes, EDT sucks, but is Thompson going to fix it, or is she just going to take the votes of those that don’t like it and not do anything?