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Midterm elections 2022: Here are the issues Indiana voters care about the most
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As the nation inches nearer to Election Day, voters are homing in on points that will determine the destiny of Congress and several other state governments in November.
The Washington Examiner is monitoring which points are on the highest of voters’ minds as they put together to go to the polls, significantly in key battleground states that might carry a shift in energy to the federal authorities. Particularly, we’re monitoring how voters are researching our high 5 points — abortion, crime, schooling, inflation, and taxes — and the way these pursuits fluctuate as we get nearer to Election Day.
MIDTERMS 2022: TRACKING THE ISSUES THAT MATTER TO VOTERS AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY
Beneath, you’ll be able to observe the curiosity in Indiana in every of our key points on a rolling 30-day foundation. The Washington Examiner might be updating this web page as pursuits and voting issues change.
Key races we’re watching within the state:
One of the extremely watched races in Indiana throughout the midterm cycle has been the Senate contest between incumbent Sen. Todd Younger (R-IN) and Democratic challenger Thomas McDermott. The race has been deemed not aggressive and is more likely to lean strong Republican, however current polls have proven McDermott closing the hole between him and Younger.
Elsewhere on the poll, Republicans have turned their consideration to Indiana’s 1st Congressional District Home seat with hopes to flip the seat crimson in November. The seat, at present held by Rep. Frank Mrvan (D-IN), is one in every of two blue Home seats out of the eight congressional districts within the state.
The seat is one in every of a number of that Republicans are eyeing to flip in November as a part of their efforts to achieve management of Congress in November. Mrvan is about to face Republican candidate Jennifer-Ruth Inexperienced, and the race is more likely to lean Democratic.
Training
Training emerged because the top-researched concern amongst Indiana voters early in September and remained the No. 1 precedence in the course of the month, based on web searches recorded and analyzed by Google Developments.
Searches associated to schooling spiked a number of instances during the last month, mirroring nationwide tendencies that noticed the problem obtain renewed curiosity in August and September — seemingly coinciding with the start of the college 12 months. Different spikes in curiosity could also be due partially to the announcement of President Joe Biden’s pupil mortgage forgiveness program on Aug. 24.
Crime
Crime held regular as one of many high points amongst Indiana voters in September, alternating as No. 2 and No. 3 all through the month.
Crime has additionally emerged as a high voter precedence nationwide, with 60% of voters saying violent crime is a “crucial” concern, rating behind solely the financial system and gun coverage, which aren’t included within the Washington Examiner’s evaluation.
Republicans have sought to color Democrats as too “delicate on crime” all through the midterm cycle, and the GOP could have a bonus as a result of it’s usually thought-about higher at dealing with crime, based on a Washington Submit-ABC Information ballot from April. That could be a shift from earlier sentiments that each events are able to dealing with crime.
Taxes
Taxes emerged as a high concern amongst Indiana voters after seeing assorted curiosity all through the month of September, coming in at No. 3 as of Oct. 6, based on web searches recorded and analyzed by Google Developments.
Web searches associated to taxes spiked thrice on Sept. 14, 16, and 27 in tandem with schooling searches, seemingly having to do with the announcement of Biden’s pupil mortgage forgiveness plan offering reduction to as much as 43 million debtors. The forgiveness plan described parameters for who can be eligible for pupil mortgage cancellation, noting debtors might want to earn beneath $125,000 individually or $250,000 as a family.
Indiana is one in every of simply seven states that has introduced it should tax the federal pupil mortgage debt that’s forgiven, including it to subsequent 12 months’s tax invoice.
Abortion
Abortion emerged as a high precedence amongst Indiana voters in mid-September earlier than falling to the No. 4 most-researched subject as of Oct. 6.
The problem has turn into central to the Senate race in Indiana, with McDermott focusing a lot of his marketing campaign on abortion entry, significantly after the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade over the summer season and ended nationwide entry to the process. In the meantime, Younger has tried to distance himself from the problem regardless of campaigning as an anti-abortion candidate who praised the Supreme Court docket’s determination as correcting “a historic injustice.”
The problem of abortion noticed renewed curiosity within the state after lawmakers handed a near-total abortion ban on Aug. 5 with slender exceptions for rape or incest. Indiana grew to become the primary state to go such a regulation after the courtroom’s determination in June.
Inflation
Inflation remained one of many lowest-searched matters all through the month of September, receiving a spike in curiosity on Sept. 13 and 28 earlier than falling again to No. 5 as of Oct. 6.
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The spikes in curiosity coincide with the discharge of the buyer worth index report displaying inflation charges barely decreased in August, with costs rising 8.3% in comparison with the 12 months earlier than. The numbers have been greater than anticipated however nonetheless a decline from July’s numbers, which confirmed an 8.5% enhance.
Republicans have lengthy targeted on inflation as a key voter concern within the midterm election cycle, pointing to hovering inflation charges beneath Biden. Nevertheless, inflation has turn into much less of a priority after the passage of the Inflation Discount Act, providing Democrats reduction and posing a problem to Republicans as they formulate new methods.
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Caitlin Clark Sets Indiana Fever Franchise Record in Half a Season
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Caitlin Clark broke an Indiana Fever rookie record with half of the WNBA season still to go.
The No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft notched her 129th assist in a game against the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday, June 30. The helping hand came on a well-run pick-and-roll with center Aliyah Boston.
After Boston set a screen for a rapidly advancing Clark, the rising star found Boston as she peeled away and ran toward the basket. The end result was an easy layup for Boston and Clark’s new record.
Clark’s record is only within the Fever organization, and specifically for rookies, but she’s playing well enough to avoid needing any qualifiers. Her average of 6.6 assists per game is good for 4th-best in the entire league. She’s on pace to blow past the Fever’s all-time single-season assists record – 201, set just last year by Erica Wheeler – before the season is out.
Clark brought newfound attention to the WNBA after setting the NCAA record for points scored in basketball, men or women’s. She led her Iowa Hawkeyes to two straight NCAA championship games in 2023 and 2024, which they lost to the LSU Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks, respectively.
At the first of those two championships, a seeming rivalry was born between Clark and her superstar counterpart on the Tigers: Angel Reese. While the pair have long denied that there’s any rivalry between them, games where Clark’s Fever play Reese’s Chicago Sky set ticket price and TV viewership records. Reese denied the rivalry in an interview in March.
“I don’t think people realize it’s not personal,” Reese said. “Once we get out between those lines, if I see you walking down the street, it’s like, ‘Hey, girl, what’s up? Let’s hang out.’ I think people just take it like we hate each other. Me and Caitlin Clark don’t hate each other. I want everybody to understand that.”
Clark agreed earlier this month, speaking during a post-game press conference.
“I’m pretty sure the only people that view this as a rivalry is all of you,” she said. “Like, to us it’s just a game of basketball.”
Reese set a rookie record on June 23 in a game against Clark when she recorded her eighth-straight double-double. She broke the single-season WNBA record for consecutive double-doubles on June 30 when she managed a 10th straight double-double. Prior to her 10-point, 16-rebound performance, she was tied with two-time WNBA MVP Candace Parker.
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Apparent fireworks malfunction leaves 7 injured, several homes damaged in Griffith, Indiana: police
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GRIFFITH, Ind. (WLS) — A fireworks incident left seven people injured and several houses and vehicles damaged in Northwest Indiana on Saturday night, police said.
Griffith police said officers were dispatched to the 900-block of North Arbogast Street at about 9:30 p.m.
It appears that a private fireworks show at home there had an accidental malfunction, injuring seven people and damaging four houses and 10 vehicles, police said.
Information about the ages and conditions of those injured was not immediately available.
Police are investigating the incident and asked anyone with information to contact them at 219-924-7503. Anonymous tips can be left by calling 219-922-3085.
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Pleasant air moves in
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Many locations in central Indiana picked up beneficial rain with yesterday’s storms. Pleasant air will now move in following this system.
TODAY: Mostly sunny skies. Dew points will drop into the comfortable category by the afternoon. Winds will be sustained out of the north at 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph. High temperatures in the mid-70s.
TONIGHT: We will have our coolest morning since June 11. Mostly clear skies remain. Low temperatures in the low to mid-50s.
TOMORROW: Another refreshing day. The first day of July will feature plenty of sunshine with high temperatures in the mid to upper 70s.
8-DAY FORECAST: Our pleasant air is only temporary. Temperatures will build after Monday as a warm front crosses Indiana. This will also drive up our rain chances Wednesday to Friday with the frontal boundary stalling out in the Midwest. Unfortunately, the 4th of July will be included in these rain chances, but we should know more about the timing of rain as we get closer.
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