It's not often anyone affiliated with a presidential race visits Muncie, or Ball State for that matter.
In a normal election year, the timing of Indiana's primary makes it a relatively unimportant state.
In a normal election year, there would be two presidential candidates already.
In case you couldn't tell, this isn't a normal election year.
With Chelsea Clinton's arrival and whispers of a Barack Obama campaign office in the Village, it's pretty obvious that the hopefuls are working hard to secure your vote.
So if you've been living under a rock for a few months, now might be a good time to crawl out and do some research to decide who the candidates are, what they're about and whose ideologies most align with your own.
The presidential primaries are ultra-competitive this year, which works well for us because the candidates are actively campaigning in Indiana. Closer to election time the attention will be focused on the states with more electoral votes. In case you didn't know, we don't really come close. Indiana has 11 as opposed to Texas with 34, Florida with 27 and California with 55.
But for now, we are who the candidates care about. In terms of both the university and the state.
Candidates are desperately seeking votes and as the classically apathetic young vote, they have many reasons to try and get our attention. If a candidate can swing the young vote, it could be just enough to push themselves into the coveted seat of Democratic nominee.
No matter what side of the political coin you are on you can't deny the magnitude of presidential attention being focused on Indiana.
So go out, listen to Chelsea. If nothing else, you can said you heard a former - and perhaps future - first daughter speak in a rather small, intimate atmosphere.
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