What an exciting month or two it has been for Indiana. The democratic presidential race generated political excitement like this state hasn't seen in decades. Almost 40,000 people voted in the primary. Tippecanoe County election workers say that's one for the record books.
I talked with some voters in Battle Ground Tuesday afternoon. The election supervisor there told me there was a line of 30 voters when she opened the doors to the fire station at 6:00a.m. I have covered some primary elections where the turnout was so low I did stories about how the election workers were knitting, playing games and reading just to pass the time. That certainly was not the case this year.
Clearly the turnout at the polls was due to the excitement in the democratic presidential race. 73% of the voters took a democratic ballot, instead of a republican ballot. People who don't normally vote in a primary did on Tuesday. They wanted to be a part of history. One man told me he was tired of high gas prices and wanted change.
Republicans say turnout for them was actually low. But, incumbents did well.
