Jerry Handfield hasnâ??t lived in Indiana since 2001, when he moved to Washington to take a similar job overseeing that stateâ??s
archives.
But Handfield still keeps tabs on Indiana. So much so that he checks the Weather Channel when tornadoes rip through the Midwest, hoping a storage site on Indianapolisâ?? east side isnâ??t hit. The former RCA record manufacturing plant near 30th Street and Shadeland Avenue, where copies of the state constitution and other critical documents are stored, is no match for a tornado, he fears.
As a student of Indiana, the historian predicts the state will tilt toward Barack Obama come election day.
Economic conditions are so bad, particularly for workers tied to Detroitâ??s auto industry, that voters will overlook their characteristically conservative patterns and go for the liberal-leaning Obama, Handfield says.
Come Nov. 5, the day after the election, â??The surprise theyâ??ll see is how many people actually voted for serious change in leadership,â?? he says.
Is Handfield a Democrat promoting Obama? No, he says.
Handfield, who serves at the pleasure of both Republicans and Democrats, has taken pains to avoid a party affiliation, and has voted for presidential candidates in each party, including the Republican currently occupying the office. He worked for Democratic candidate George McGovern because he knew him from school, but still considers Eisenhower a personal hero.
So, how do you feel? Polls show the race between Obama and John McCain is too close to call. Which direction will Hoosiers take?
But Handfield still keeps tabs on Indiana. So much so that he checks the Weather Channel when tornadoes rip through the Midwest, hoping a storage site on Indianapolisâ?? east side isnâ??t hit. The former RCA record manufacturing plant near 30th Street and Shadeland Avenue, where copies of the state constitution and other critical documents are stored, is no match for a tornado, he fears.
As a student of Indiana, the historian predicts the state will tilt toward Barack Obama come election day.
Economic conditions are so bad, particularly for workers tied to Detroitâ??s auto industry, that voters will overlook their characteristically conservative patterns and go for the liberal-leaning Obama, Handfield says.
Come Nov. 5, the day after the election, â??The surprise theyâ??ll see is how many people actually voted for serious change in leadership,â?? he says.
Is Handfield a Democrat promoting Obama? No, he says.
Handfield, who serves at the pleasure of both Republicans and Democrats, has taken pains to avoid a party affiliation, and has voted for presidential candidates in each party, including the Republican currently occupying the office. He worked for Democratic candidate George McGovern because he knew him from school, but still considers Eisenhower a personal hero.
So, how do you feel? Polls show the race between Obama and John McCain is too close to call. Which direction will Hoosiers take?
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Admittedly, the Dems haven't truly done their jobs right all the time either, but looking at an economy like we have now, this Tricle-Down Economics thing just doesn't seem to work.
I would put my faith in the candidate who would change the fundamentals of the economy on a whole... Let's get away from the rich getting richer / poor getting poorer tack and bridge the divide in wealth between Americans.
I think the Mr. Handfield is probably correct in that people are going to vote for serious change from the current road we're on.
Nope, IN goes Obama. The GOTV will ensure that. Well, that and Rudy Clay. :lol:
I came of voting age when Reagan presented trickle down economics, and I can tell you that it DID work.
There have been three presidents since then, and all have modified the original premise, and decimated the true trickle down effect. Yet all still claim that 'trickle down' is in effect today, when it is not !
The Clinton administration did alot to enhance the concept, (after inheriting, once again, a national defecit) by placing safeguards and other checks and balances, basically morphing it into what I wouldn't exactly call the original trickle down concept.
Then the current Bush administrtion revived it and removed the safeguards the Clinton Administration put on the system. Now we see that while maybe the concept works on paper, or quazi-worked 20 years ago, it doesn't work now or when you have greedy people in control of it. I can't for one moment think that the same people in the GOP now wouldn't continue to try to get away with what they've been doing to this economy for the last 7 years.
So basically, yeah, we're in a train wreck and I certainly wouldn't want the engineer or anyone who works with him or for him to drive the next train home.