Oldiesfreak1854
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« on: September 04, 2017, 10:54:43 AM » |
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Obama led the polls by a decent margin for most of the summer. McCain got a huge boost from the convention and led in nearly every poll prior the day the financial crisis broke. Then his chances sunk with it, because people blamed Bush and the GOP for what happened.
However, the financial crisis isn't why Obama got Indiana or North Carolina. In Indiana, he won because of being from Chicago and having a sort-of favorite son effect; in North Carolina it was high black turnout. And Virginia was trending D well before 2008, as demonstrated by the enormous growth of NoVa over the last few decades and that region's increasingly bluish tilt since the 90s.
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