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Nothing much surprises me this election cycle considering no one on the Republican side except for a few is willing to see this economy get better even if it meant a second term for Barack Obama but hearing Mitch Daniels, Republican Indiana Governor say that Obama has a slim to none chance of winning his state did cause me to do a double-take. Mr. Daniels was a guest of Chris Wallace on Fox News, Sunday, when he was asked if President Obama would win Indiana as he did before.   Governor Daniels justified his statement by saying that “Obama’s job sinking policies would not be forgotten by Hoosiers and they would not reward him with a win.”   When Mr. Wallace asked if the governor believed that Mitt Romney had the state sewed up, Daniels replied that basically “Romney would have to work for it.”   That was quite a confusing interview but Mr. Wallace did little to clear it up.   What confused me was the thought if Indiana would not reward Obama with a win ...

Phillip Elliott’s Associated Press article titled No go in 2012: Ind. GOP Gov. Daniels not running talks about “Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., said Sunday he won't run for president because of family concerns, narrowing the field but making a wide-open race even hazier.”     It speaks to “the Republican establishment who longed for a conservative with a strong fiscal record to run.   Polls show that Republican primary voters want more options in a race that includes former Govs. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, as well as ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others” but what this article did not speak to was why. The answer is clear; Republicans are now traveling the same road that caused one of their own members to call the Republican name unwanted “dog food”.   Republican controls the House of Representatives, many State Houses and Senates and even Governors offices.   They ran on job creations and smaller government.   They pro...

While I had never really thought much about whom the Republicans fielded as their nominee for president in 2012, I am a political junkie and was attempting to listen about those that may throw their hat into the ring.   Political operatives and pundits know much more about these possible candidates than I ever will but after hearing the pros and cons of those believed to be in the running, I was aspired to speak about just one of them. Watching Hardball with Chris Matthews, he was speaking about Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels with Susan Page and Mark Halperin.   I heard them mention that those that supported George Bush, high level GOP personnel and maybe even Bush himself was anxious to get behind him.   Tom LoBianco of the Associated Press wrote an article titled Ind. governor's wife mum about White House plans in which it was reported that “instead he demurred, much as he has over the last few months, in his 14-minute introduction of his wife. And she said nothing...