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« on: November 05, 2021, 12:19:15 PM » |
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Del Tachi certainly has a point, Obama managed to narrow the margins considerably in rural Indiana, since McCain only got over 60% in a handful of counties. I'd also mention that turnout among young voters was critical. For example, Kerry only won Monroe county by 8% (after Gore narrowly lost it), but Obama won it by 32%, and got over 40,000 votes there. While Democrats have done well there, they still haven't hit Obama's numbers there, and high turnout in college towns were definitely a part of his win, coupled with above average performance in small towns and the Northwestern part of the state, where the manufacturing industry got hit hard.
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