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« on: October 26, 2020, 07:44:53 PM »

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/20201026_IN_Ragnar.pdf

October 18-21
629 likely voters
MoE: 4%

Holcomb 52%
Myers 26%
Rainwater 14%
Undecided 8%
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2020, 08:21:42 PM »

This is a Republican pollster. They worked for Hogan's 2018 campaign for Maryland Governor and Perdue's 2014 campaign for Senate in GA.
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2020, 08:46:26 PM »

If the Democrats had nominated a competent challenger they might have had a shot. A lot of Republicans are pissed with Holcomb for the mask mandate.
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2020, 10:53:11 PM »

Holcomb should run for President. He is smart enough to realize that 1) Good Policy should trump politics in a crisis and 2) good politics is also on the side of said policy since according to SUSA, 63% of Republicans support such, including of 80% of Republicans 65 and up.

Holcomb is going to outrun Trump by miles in Indy Metro, at the expense of some young, white, rural voters who think they are immortal, bought into online nonsense, confused by the Trump administration, and/or just plain don't give a crap about their parents and grandparents.

If Trump wasn't running around mocking masks, and getting Covid because of it so he can look like faux tough guy, support for masks would be at 90% among Republicans and this wouldn't be a partisan issue (it really isn't since vast majorities support it).
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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2020, 12:11:23 PM »
« Edited: October 27, 2020, 12:24:33 PM by StateBoiler »

22% of those polled had already voted. From Indy Politics:

http://indypolitics.org/more-polling/

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The poll also revealed that 22 percent of those surveyed had voted early.  Those results were as follows…

President

Trump – 37%
Biden – 54%
Jorgensen – 2%

Governor

Holcomb – 49%
Myers – 38%
Rainwater – 8%

How do the above numbers add up to less than 100%? It has subheadings in the poll results saying "Already Voted, 22%" and lists the remainders as "Undecided". WTF?
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2020, 12:19:54 PM »
« Edited: October 27, 2020, 12:53:55 PM by StateBoiler »

Holcomb should run for President. He is smart enough to realize that 1) Good Policy should trump politics in a crisis and 2) good politics is also on the side of said policy since according to SUSA, 63% of Republicans support such, including of 80% of Republicans 65 and up.

The reason he is governor is he was running 3rd in a Senate primary race to Todd Young and Marlin Stutzman, this was post-2012 Richard Mourdock, and the state party was scared of the Republican establishment vote splitting with Young leading to Stutzman winning the primary and being vulnerable in the general. So Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann who did not get along well with Governor Mike Pence suddenly had an opening for her come up to become the President of Ivy Tech, creating a LG vacancy that Holcomb was selected to fill, and suddenly the establishment vote was not getting split in the Republican primary, leading to a comfortable Young victory. Then Mike Pence gets called up to be vice president, and Holcomb is selected by the state party central committee to fill the vacancy (initial vote was Holcomb 9, Rep. Susan Brooks 7, Rep. Todd Rokita 2, and I think the initial 2 Rokita votes went to Holcomb).

I generally like Holcomb, but he's never faced a Republican primary in a Republican-heavy state. He was failing miserably in one, 3rd of 3, and was plucked out of it with a golden parachute for "good of the party", which wound up with him being Governor due to "extenuating circumstances". He literally went from possibly finishing 3rd in a Senate primary to inheriting the Governor nomination and winning in November in a Republican wave year in 9 months. Throw him in a presidential race primary and when he's never finished 1st out of 2 you're asking him to finish 1st out of 15 to 20.

The mask requirement how it was implemented was just dumb. He told everyone to wear masks but had nothing about enforcement, and suddenly all these county sheriff's offices were deluged with phone calls of how their neighbor wasn't wearing one at the Kroger: the most easy-to-see government dictating policy but washing their hands of it post-dictate saying enforcement was someone else's responsibility ever. I think a majority of the county sheriff's offices in the state had to put out policy guidelines for this locally on what they would enforce and not enforce (in short: mask mandate not constitutional per Attorney General, but businesses are allowed to mandate you wear a mask and we'll respond to disturbances at said businesses over this) which shows Holcomb pissed them all off. Holcomb was forced to roll back by the Attorney General (a political enemy of Holcomb for reasons I won't get into here) who said it was unconstitutional because the legislature had to make the policy law, not purely governor dictate. Another one that's not as politcally touchy but the same thing is Holcomb pushed on the legislature to make it law that using/touching a cell phone while driving was a crime. The legislature did pass this in their session earlier this year. I mean, I understand and get it, but at the same time does he really expect sheriff's offices to start pulling people over for this and enforcing this law when they don't enforce, say, the state's marijuana laws, or speed limits up to a point?

There's also been some "one law for the public, not for me". Closed all the state parks for Covid-19 which had negative effects on people that lived in those parks in RV's, but Holcomb had a residence at Brown County State Park... The stages of reopening, dear God. What the hell is Stage 4.5? This was an invented stage where we were supposed to go from 4 to 5 and then numbers got worse. Since his administration had telegraphed we were moving up but couldn't justify going to 5 and didn't want to say things were getting worse so had to stay at 4, they invented Stage 4.5 which we were at for a long time. You also had certain stages of reopening that happened to coincide with particular events and weekends, say the 4th of July or the Indianapolis 500. Coincidental how that happens for policies that are 100% science-based.
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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2020, 05:53:51 PM »

Holcomb should run for President. He is smart enough to realize that 1) Good Policy should trump politics in a crisis and 2) good politics is also on the side of said policy since according to SUSA, 63% of Republicans support such, including of 80% of Republicans 65 and up.

The reason he is governor is he was running 3rd in a Senate primary race to Todd Young and Marlin Stutzman, this was post-2012 Richard Mourdock, and the state party was scared of the Republican establishment vote splitting with Young leading to Stutzman winning the primary and being vulnerable in the general. So Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann who did not get along well with Governor Mike Pence suddenly had an opening for her come up to become the President of Ivy Tech, creating a LG vacancy that Holcomb was selected to fill, and suddenly the establishment vote was not getting split in the Republican primary, leading to a comfortable Young victory. Then Mike Pence gets called up to be vice president, and Holcomb is selected by the state party central committee to fill the vacancy (initial vote was Holcomb 9, Rep. Susan Brooks 7, Rep. Todd Rokita 2, and I think the initial 2 Rokita votes went to Holcomb).

I generally like Holcomb, but he's never faced a Republican primary in a Republican-heavy state. He was failing miserably in one, 3rd of 3, and was plucked out of it with a golden parachute for "good of the party", which wound up with him being Governor due to "extenuating circumstances". He literally went from possibly finishing 3rd in a Senate primary to inheriting the Governor nomination and winning in November in a Republican wave year in 9 months. Throw him in a presidential race primary and when he's never finished 1st out of 2 you're asking him to finish 1st out of 15 to 20.

The mask requirement how it was implemented was just dumb. He told everyone to wear masks but had nothing about enforcement, and suddenly all these county sheriff's offices were deluged with phone calls of how their neighbor wasn't wearing one at the Kroger: the most easy-to-see government dictating policy but washing their hands of it post-dictate saying enforcement was someone else's responsibility ever. I think a majority of the county sheriff's offices in the state had to put out policy guidelines for this locally on what they would enforce and not enforce (in short: mask mandate not constitutional per Attorney General, but businesses are allowed to mandate you wear a mask and we'll respond to disturbances at said businesses over this) which shows Holcomb pissed them all off. Holcomb was forced to roll back by the Attorney General (a political enemy of Holcomb for reasons I won't get into here) who said it was unconstitutional because the legislature had to make the policy law, not purely governor dictate. Another one that's not as politcally touchy but the same thing is Holcomb pushed on the legislature to make it law that using/touching a cell phone while driving was a crime. The legislature did pass this in their session earlier this year. I mean, I understand and get it, but at the same time does he really expect sheriff's offices to start pulling people over for this and enforcing this law when they don't enforce, say, the state's marijuana laws, or speed limits up to a point?

There's also been some "one law for the public, not for me". Closed all the state parks for Covid-19 which had negative effects on people that lived in those parks in RV's, but Holcomb had a residence at Brown County State Park... The stages of reopening, dear God. What the hell is Stage 4.5? This was an invented stage where we were supposed to go from 4 to 5 and then numbers got worse. Since his administration had telegraphed we were moving up but couldn't justify going to 5 and didn't want to say things were getting worse so had to stay at 4, they invented Stage 4.5 which we were at for a long time. You also had certain stages of reopening that happened to coincide with particular events and weekends, say the 4th of July or the Indianapolis 500. Coincidental how that happens for policies that are 100% science-based.

I remember his progression to the Governorship rather well.

Why is he doing so well, to the point of winning the early vote by 11% in your estimation, considering the issues with implementation and lack of enforcement considerations?
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« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2020, 11:26:19 PM »

New Poll: Indiana Governor by Other Source on 2020-10-21

Summary: D: 26%, R: 52%, U: 8%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details
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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2020, 07:51:21 AM »
« Edited: October 28, 2020, 08:06:26 AM by StateBoiler »

Holcomb should run for President. He is smart enough to realize that 1) Good Policy should trump politics in a crisis and 2) good politics is also on the side of said policy since according to SUSA, 63% of Republicans support such, including of 80% of Republicans 65 and up.

The reason he is governor is he was running 3rd in a Senate primary race to Todd Young and Marlin Stutzman, this was post-2012 Richard Mourdock, and the state party was scared of the Republican establishment vote splitting with Young leading to Stutzman winning the primary and being vulnerable in the general. So Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann who did not get along well with Governor Mike Pence suddenly had an opening for her come up to become the President of Ivy Tech, creating a LG vacancy that Holcomb was selected to fill, and suddenly the establishment vote was not getting split in the Republican primary, leading to a comfortable Young victory. Then Mike Pence gets called up to be vice president, and Holcomb is selected by the state party central committee to fill the vacancy (initial vote was Holcomb 9, Rep. Susan Brooks 7, Rep. Todd Rokita 2, and I think the initial 2 Rokita votes went to Holcomb).

I generally like Holcomb, but he's never faced a Republican primary in a Republican-heavy state. He was failing miserably in one, 3rd of 3, and was plucked out of it with a golden parachute for "good of the party", which wound up with him being Governor due to "extenuating circumstances". He literally went from possibly finishing 3rd in a Senate primary to inheriting the Governor nomination and winning in November in a Republican wave year in 9 months. Throw him in a presidential race primary and when he's never finished 1st out of 2 you're asking him to finish 1st out of 15 to 20.

The mask requirement how it was implemented was just dumb. He told everyone to wear masks but had nothing about enforcement, and suddenly all these county sheriff's offices were deluged with phone calls of how their neighbor wasn't wearing one at the Kroger: the most easy-to-see government dictating policy but washing their hands of it post-dictate saying enforcement was someone else's responsibility ever. I think a majority of the county sheriff's offices in the state had to put out policy guidelines for this locally on what they would enforce and not enforce (in short: mask mandate not constitutional per Attorney General, but businesses are allowed to mandate you wear a mask and we'll respond to disturbances at said businesses over this) which shows Holcomb pissed them all off. Holcomb was forced to roll back by the Attorney General (a political enemy of Holcomb for reasons I won't get into here) who said it was unconstitutional because the legislature had to make the policy law, not purely governor dictate. Another one that's not as politcally touchy but the same thing is Holcomb pushed on the legislature to make it law that using/touching a cell phone while driving was a crime. The legislature did pass this in their session earlier this year. I mean, I understand and get it, but at the same time does he really expect sheriff's offices to start pulling people over for this and enforcing this law when they don't enforce, say, the state's marijuana laws, or speed limits up to a point?

There's also been some "one law for the public, not for me". Closed all the state parks for Covid-19 which had negative effects on people that lived in those parks in RV's, but Holcomb had a residence at Brown County State Park... The stages of reopening, dear God. What the hell is Stage 4.5? This was an invented stage where we were supposed to go from 4 to 5 and then numbers got worse. Since his administration had telegraphed we were moving up but couldn't justify going to 5 and didn't want to say things were getting worse so had to stay at 4, they invented Stage 4.5 which we were at for a long time. You also had certain stages of reopening that happened to coincide with particular events and weekends, say the 4th of July or the Indianapolis 500. Coincidental how that happens for policies that are 100% science-based.

I remember his progression to the Governorship rather well.

Why is he doing so well, to the point of winning the early vote by 11% in your estimation, considering the issues with implementation and lack of enforcement considerations?

Because the Democratic nominee is absolutely horrible. They could not get anyone to run very deep into 2019 when the tea leaves are supposed to be out there saying "here's who is running". Indiana political pundits said this was the latest either party had ever gone without having someone running for governor. This is part due to most everyone save social conservatives and teachers were happy with Holcomb, so credit to Holcomb there. Holcomb built up a huge war chest but that was more to fend off a primary challenger that never appeared I believe. Enter Woody Myers. Former Health Commissioner of Indiana and New York City. Then went to work in the corporate sector. He ran for the Congress seat based out of Indianapolis when it was open about 12 years ago and lost to Andre Carson. That's his only elective experience.

Earlier this year he couldn't find a lieutenant governor nominee, so the deadline to apply came with no one having applied, meaning any random person could have applied and would have been the LG nominee, and the Democratic State Central Committee extended the deadline 3 days and in a quote that made the minutes of the meeting told the Myers campaign "to get your sh**t together". He's been unable to raise any money (to be fair, partially due to Covid-19, but everyone in politics is dealing with that) and has little campaign staff. The Libertarian nominee Donald Rainwater has a much larger presence in this campaign as far as advertising, road signs, etc. than Myers does, which is unheard of in Indiana politics or really nationally for a Libertarian to run so strongly in a race with both major parties present. Rainwater was helped by a probably bogus poll from Change Research showing the race at Holcomb 36, Myers 30, Rainwater 24. But even if bogus that poll greatly helped Rainwater by showing not all Republicans were on board with Holcomb and getting money to him and creating larger enthusiasm around him versus being another Libertarian also-ran. I'm not saying Myers will finish 3rd. The cities and straight ticket voting especially is a built-in advantage he has to at least take 2nd, but the fact we even have to talk about it shows how much of a non-challenge to Holcomb he was.

He has a huge campaign war chest and has nowhere to spend it after this election. If he wants to run for president and be Jeb Bush 2.0, he can go for it I guess. But he's not going to stand up well in a crowded primary field.
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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2020, 04:45:22 PM »

Do a little math, and if the numbers in this poll are correct, Holcomb and Myers would be neck-and-neck if all of Biden's voters went to Myers. If Rainwater really does get double digits, Holcomb may very well owe his reelection in part to Myers' incompetence as a nominee.
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