with a narrow lead on one more!

We've had one previous democratic mayor in the last 50 years but the republicans had a lock on the council until four years ago.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Is showing some hope there.

We're the most blue city in a predominantly red state but every time we make advances the state legislature changes the rules to give the 'pubs some new advantage.

We won all four at-large council seats last time around so the legislature eliminated them with a stroke of a pen.

and when Glenda Ritz won the Superintendent of Education office in 2012 (sort of unexpectedly), Pence and the massively GOP legislature basically took away most of her power. Democrats had a pretty good run of things government wise between the successive Bayh/O'Bannon Administrations from the 1990's until about 2004 when Frank O'Bannon passed away and it's been downhill for the Democratic Party ever since. We have basically been wiped out in the Legislature to where the GOP supermajority can do whatever they (and Pence) want and they hold most of our Congressional seats (though we hold one Senate seat due to a ridiculously bad GOP candidate who knocked out the more solid Richard Lugar in the primary in 2012). I'm hoping that Pence's missteps over RFRA this year will enable Democrat John Gregg (who very narrowly lost to Pence in 2012) to take the Governor's office next year. *fingers crossed*

at least in Indianapolis. Now if we can turn around some of the state legislatures, Congress, and keep the clowns out of the White House.