Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is the keynote speaker at a health-care conference at the American Enterprise Institute tomorrow. One sign of how he plans to handle the social issues if he runs for president will be whether he calls for reviving the Hyde amendment in the wake of Obamacare’s passage. Applying the amendment’s restrictions on abortion funding to Obamacare got a large bipartisan vote in the House last fall, and most polls suggest that the public is on board. If Daniels takes this position, he will be out front on a popular, not-particularly-divisive social-conservative issue. Social conservative doubts about his truce talk will largely abate.

If he is instead silent on the question, people will draw different conclusions.