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...is1956, and Hoose is the new kid in his Indiana town, a klutzy, nearsighted third-grader who wears trousers a bit too high. Then his parents deliver the news "on the order of a cure for polio": Don Larsen--a New York Yankee!--is his cousin once removed. The kid and the star trade letters, they meet, and Hoose gains courage and acceptance. When Larsen throws his iconic perfect game in the World Series that October, "even a few girls came over" to the boy's desk. Hoose reconnects with the player 50 years later, expecting to find a "half...
...Obama may not be our savior, but he has the charisma and capability to be our Moses and lead us out of the wilderness. Bill Longtine Evansville, Indiana...
...Take the congressional race in Louisville. Despite the city's location just spitting distance from the Bible Belt - and directly across the river from conservative, rural Southern Indiana - voters veered leftward in picking an unabashed liberal to replace a popular and well-entrenched conservative Republican congresswoman. Indeed, no one in this city has ever mistaken Democrat John Yarmuth - founder and former editor of an alternative newspaper called Louisville Eccentric Observer - as a centrist, much less a conservative...
...similar story across the river in Indiana's conservative Ninth District, where former Congressman Baron Hill campaigned on a solidly Democratic platform - against a gay marriage amendment, against the war, and for expanded health care and increasing the minimum wage - and defeated the incumbent, hard-right social conservative Mike Sodrel...
...conservative credentials, but lost their respective races. "They didn't present a clear alternative and the national wave didn't catch them," said Yarmuth. "Democrats who might have been inclined to vote for them, figured, 'What's the difference?'" Even supposed conservative Democrats like former sheriff Brad Ellsworth in Indiana's 8th District, who trounced Republican incumbent John Hostettler, ran in support of raising the minimum wage and against some of the Bush tax cuts...