Breaking News: Man does well in home state. Midwest likes fellow Midwesterner.
Ya know, I just noticed Jimmy Carter did very well in the South, too.
Nobody from outside of the Chicago area feels any sense of identity with a Chicagoan. Midwestern identity isn't like southern identity. I remember my dad saying once that Chicago wasn't really midwestern.
Downstate Illinois voted for Obama in his 2004 race.
Yeah, numbers would suggest otherwise. The three times a Midwestern Democrat has been at the top of the ticket in the last 45 years, the Midwest has trended Democratic. And the one time a Midwestern Republican was on the ticket, the Midwest trended Republican.
