Posted on 04/24/2008 3:23:07 PM PDT by The_Republican
With all the talk among the Democratic presidential hopefuls about change, they may wish to consider this as they wander Indiana:
People here practically revolted a few years ago when their governor, Mitch Daniels, pushed to change to daylight saving time like most of the country.
Change, it seems, may not carry quite the same political magic in this state as it has elsewhere.
“We hold onto a lot of traditional values,” said Brian L. Thomas, 39, as he bought a cup of coffee along the courthouse square here on Wednesday. “Saying you’re ready to change is probably not the best or only thing you would want to say around these parts. Frankly, we want it to be like it used to be.”
Many of the two dozen voters interviewed in this central Indiana manufacturing city of 46,000 expressed queasiness over the notions of change that both Democratic candidates have proudly pledged elsewhere. Though residents bemoaned economic conditions that have taken away thousands of factory jobs and given the state the 11th-highest rate of foreclosures, they also said they worried about doing things — anything — very differently.
“What are we going to change to?” asked Ron O’Bryan, 58, a retired auto worker who said he was still trying to decide which Democrat to vote for in the May 6 primary. “You mean change to some other country’s system? What do you think they mean?”
Jeremy Lewis, a 28-year-old window washer, said simply, “Old-fashioned can be in a good way.”
As the Democratic presidential hopefuls turned to Indiana as a new battleground in the fight for the nomination, they find themselves facing a different audience in places like Kokomo, a blue-collar city in the middle of endless expanses of farms north of Indianapolis.
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Indiana voters seem to have more sense than most. Most voters are just happy to get 'change' without any understanding of what the 'change' is.
That's Indiana. Get right to the core of the matter. LOL.
Our High School educated auto workers have more sense than a handful of information overload "coasters".
Let one of those spewing tea kettles they call democrats tell the autoworker that his premise is preposterous.
I would love to see that....ROTFLMBO.
Everytime I hear Obama talk about change my stomach turns. He scares the heck out of me. He sounds like an old fashioned radical.
He also said he was going to start the change in my back yard.
He IS what he sounds like. He is just realizing himself what he is. When people are telling him who he is. He is a bit confused but he would figure it out.
Nobody with that viewpoint would vote for any Democrat ever.
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