GARY-As I arrived in Gary, Indiana today, I passed through several residential neighborhoods and noticed many Obama signs. And many more Obama signs. Actually, the most I have seen in the state so far.
It’s a beautiful sunny day today, people are out tending their lawns, and people are also working very hard. It was around […]

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INDIANAPOLIS  — “No money!” yelled a man in the passing car, his words trailing in the blustering wind of downtown Indianapolis.
People in Indiana are helpful.
Laura, Meg and I had been trying to feed the meter. I guess you don’t have to do that on Saturday mornings.

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LEBANON, IND. — In a pair of middle schools on opposite sides of Indianapolis, in the proud little cities of Greenfield and Lebanon, former President Bill Clinton continued his whirlwind stumping tour in support of his wife late Friday.
In suburban Greenfield, the seat of Hancock County - located about 10 miles east of Indianapolis – almost […]

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(Janis Thornton and Will in the The Times)

(Old Stoney in all its Midwestern civic glory)
By Meghan Peters and Will Mari
FRANKFORT, IN — While driving down Clinton Avenue in Clinton County, we thought passing a Clinton lawn sign would be the icing on the cake. It’d make for a catchy title to our first post in […]

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Outside of Hillary Clinton’s Park Hyatt hotel victory speech in downtown Philadelphia Tuesday, I was given a lesson in spelling.
“Hillary is the Rock of Gibraltar. R-O-C-K. You can’t shake her,” Cyprian Anyanwu, founder of African Congress USA, Inc. said.
Anyanwu was standing on the road median of Broad St., across from the hotel. Among him were […]

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As Jonathan Martin notes today at Politico, Obama and Hillary are about evenly matched in Indiana. Both sides have their advantages:
For Obama, the raw math suggests a slight advantage. Upwards of 25 percent of the primary vote will come out of just two counties: Marion and Lake. The first is home to Indianapolis, the capital […]

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PHILADELPHIA- New Yorkers Sothelo Chen and her friend Helen Bangera were making phone calls to Pennsylvania all week.
Disappointed by Barack Obama’s loss in their home state, they wanted to remind people to vote in today’s primary and flew in to Pennsylvania to hold up signs outside the Engine Company Ladder 23 polling station in Chinatown. […]

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PHILADELPHIA- As Nate Bomberger scrolled through Youtube.com videos of Barack Obama speeches, his words inspired him. He left his job as a mortgage broker in March to volunteer full-time at the Obama office in Lancaster.
But, prior to this election, Bomberger was a life-long Republican.
He voted for President George W. Bush in 2000 and again in […]

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PHILADELPHIA- Yesterday we posed the question, do the Amish vote in the primary? Fortunately we answered this question, and taped it below.

(We were granted permission)

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Early this morning I brought you some of the meaninglessness that is the polls of who is going to take the Democratic nomination, have a bit more
Rasmussen, April 20, Clinton 49% Obama 44%.
PPP Poll, April 19-20, Obama 49% Clinton 46%.
Quinnipac, April 18-20, Clinton 51% Obama 44%.
SurveyUSA, April 18-20, Clinton 50% Obama 44%.
Okay so the fun […]

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