Persuasion.

May 4, Pittsboro.

The Democratic nomination campaign hit Indiana last week and local election signs are everywhere again. That and the "Jesus is coming" signs, on a square white sheet tacked on a tree, or the one that read just "Jesus," hand-written on a piece of cardboard, also tacked on a tree; there was a giant cross somewhere in southern Indiana, I didn't write down where, some 200 feet tall, gleaming white and angled, both menacing and incongruous in its over-the-board zeal.