South Bend Tribune: Forum attenders favor Central Time

An article from the South Bend Tribune entitled SouthBendTribune.com: Central time clear favorite suggests that those individuals attending a time zone forum in South Bend strongly favored Central Time. This contrasted with a poll taken by the Tribune which showed opinion about evenly divided. My guess is that this is going to be similar to the gun control debate and other primarily emotional issues — one side will be strongly committed to their position and will vote on that basis. The other side will be less passionate and won’t cast votes based on that issue alone. My guess is that central-timers and anti-DST advocates will be more likely to base their vote on the time issue than will eastern timers and pro-DST advocates. Just my guess. It also bears mentioning that this forum was not held by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation which has jurisdiction over the issue. The Daniels administration has said it expects the USDOT to conduct hearings. As best I can tell, the USDOT has been absolutely silent.