The rural Indian voter is a shrewd analyst, even when events are colored by mythology.

The state's roughly 16,000 Indian voters, who lean heavily Democratic, have become an improbable national political force.

But the mistreatment of Indian voters is simply a discredit to American democracy.

Indian voters are strongly anti-incumbent, so in one sense the turning out of the Congress Party was no surprise.

The turnout in 1987, which also included mixed race and Indian voters, was 67.8 percent.

What Indian voters were saying was not: "Stop the globalization train, we want to get off."

In response, Indian voters last spring returned him to office and gave his party its best showing in nearly two decades.

Her foreign birth and her lack of political experience are legitimate concerns for Indian voters, they said.

The turnout of mixed-race and Indian voters was also generally sluggish.

The Indian voter looked over the basket of political fruit and threw out any that seemed bruised or rotten.