Farmers for Obama

President-Elect Barack Obama (I can’t write that enough; it makes me giddy) has hit the ground running and has already flexed some political muscle on Guatanamo Bay prisoners and a potential bailout for the auto industry. Not surprisingly, the economy is the top priority and we expect a slow trickle of good news coming out of the President-Elect’s office (hee!) over the next 75 days until inauguration day (you can get a countdown keychain here).
We’re hearing assurances from the President-Elect’s office (hee!) that Obama’s agenda will be the same one …

The front lines of the political battlegrounds have shifted west this year, and Indiana right in the middle. Traditionally conservative and cautious about change, the stakes are high enough, and the choices important enough, that Hoosiers are taking notice and about evenly divided, so writes The Economist.
Jay McCann, a professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, argues that Democratic presidential candidates simply haven’t spent the money to make the state competitive, giving priority to nearby Ohio and Wisconsin instead.
Not so Barack Obama, who has gone on the offensive in Indiana. …