WAGNER: Political ads filtered by a 4-year-old
We don’t watch a lot of television in our house, but when it’s on, it’s almost always tuned to a news station or show.
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FARGO: Ads breed cynicism in young people
The election is over, but there are still some unanswered questions as we clean up the toxic debris from the campaigns and get back to focusing on other things.
BONIFIELD: Blowout holds lessons for Democrats
As the dust settles on the 2012 elections, new oaths of office will be accompanied by post-mortems by partisans on both sides of the aisle.
LANANE: Target small business, Main Street, training, health care
Our state is in a challenging time, with unemployment hovering above 8 percent and many Hoosiers hopeful that better days are on the horizon. The Indiana Senate Democrats’ 2013 legislative proposals and budget priorities will reflect the principles of rebuilding our economy, schools and local communities.
BROOKS: A primer on true, workable moderation
Over the past month, Mitt Romney has aggressively appealed to moderate voters. President Barack Obama, for some reason, hasn’t.
KRUGMAN: Pols should follow the economic evidence
The U.S. economy finally seems to be recovering in earnest, with housing on the rebound and job creation outpacing growth in the working-age population. But it will take years to restore full employment. Why has the slump been so protracted?
LEIGHTY: Real feminists want a better economy
Apparently, the Republican Party has waged a war on women. I’ve heard this from the mainstream media, many Democratic candidates and even a few Indiana University professors.
WINSTON: Why rural voters should support Obama
Politics is an amazing, yet perplexing, profession. I have often wondered why President Obama trails Mitt Romney by a large margin in rural areas.
SOUDER: Pence is show horse and work horse
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg has hauled out the canard that Mike Pence is a “show horse,” not a “work horse,” based upon two “polls” in 2006 and 2008. Neither was scientific: They were anonymous, voting multiple times could be easily done, and rivals could rig the voting.
DAVIS: Republicans’ turn to vote for Democrats
If you know me, I think you agree that I am not a firebrand partisan with automatic reactions based on my Democratic Party affiliation.
SHELLA: A kitchen where the heat is turned down
All of a sudden, when I check out news stories on the Internet, a negative political ad pops up and I can’t make it go away. That is, unless I want the news story to go away, too.
EARLY: Donnelly running on high-pocrisy
It is only a few days until the election, and the Mourdock-Donnelly Senate race is still in limbo.
BOHANON: Mourdock’s uncompromising ‘extremism’
Politics is about compromise. But compromise is always around an agenda and elections are about agendas.
GARRISON: This time, the stakes truly are huge
Almost every politics-attentive person around Indianapolis probably sees the Nov. 6 elections as of huge consequence.
ODLE: The fight to get out the vote is ongoing
Americans seem to be full of contradictions. Perhaps that is why we are so admired, and yet so hated, by the rest of the world.
VAUGHN: Election bullies threaten right to vote
With Indiana ranked a dismal 48th for voter turnout, you would think Republicans and Democrats could agree that our state needs to take aggressive steps to increase the number of active voters.
BOEHM: Good reasons not to toss out judges
The ballot this year will ask you whether two judges of the Indiana Supreme Court and four on the Court of Appeals will be retained in office. Don’t forget to vote yes on all six retention questions.
HARRIS: Trigger laws critical to amplifying parents’ voices
For too long, power over urban schools has rested too much with district central offices and not enough with parents.
MEREDITH: Involved parents can lend support to their schools
I do not think parents need a trigger law to allow them to do what they should be doing already by advocating for their children.
WALKER: Republicans keep winning with common sense values
As with Mark Twain, the report of the death of the Marion County Republican Party was an exaggeration. Don’t believe me? Check the 25th floor of the City-County Building.