Indiana Democratic Party delegates will officially choose their candidates to run for statewide office at this weekend’s convention.

Joselyn Whitticker, the Democrats’ candidate for Auditor, and Treasurer candidate John Aguilera only filed for those races last week. Political scientist Andrew Downs says that’s not a good sign when Democrats already have an uphill battle when it comes to, for instance, name recognition.

But Downs says that’s not even those candidates’ biggest issue. “The real problem here is that you have some folks who have some decent-looking résumés who are being asked to run a statewide campaign in a year in which outside money and U.S. Senate money is going to just come pouring into the state – which really increases the cost of running a legitimate statewide campaign.”

Whitticker, Aguilera, and Secretary of State candidate Jim Harper are each uncontested within the party heading into Saturday’s convention.

The convention will take place in downtown Indianapolis.  Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will give an address, Saturday afternoon.