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« on: November 11, 2019, 04:52:57 PM »

And I mean the only Democrat who lived for the last 45 years, and has won Indiana in a presidential election.

Every Republican candidate who is still alive has also won Indiana.
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2019, 05:15:20 PM »

And I mean the only Democrat who lived for the last 45 years, and has won Indiana in a presidential election.

Every Republican candidate who is still alive has also won Indiana.

And Bill Clinton's the only one to net Montana or Arizona...where are you going with this?
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2019, 11:54:10 AM »

Indiana is a Republican state and Obama won the biggest Democratic landslide since '64.

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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2019, 01:26:48 PM »

The plot thickens.
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2019, 03:00:41 PM »

Indiana is a Republican state and Obama won the biggest Democratic landslide since '64.
No, he didn’t. 1996 was a bigger landslide in both EV and PV.
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« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2019, 08:12:46 PM »

LBJ’s the only Democrat, living or dead, to have carried Alaska in a presidential election. 
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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2019, 10:13:15 PM »

Indiana is a Republican state and Obama won the biggest Democratic landslide since '64.
No, he didn’t. 1996 was a bigger landslide in both EV and PV.
In terms of margin, sure. Obama won the largest % of the popular vote of any Democratic nominee in the last fifty years. (I don't care about the electoral college, as it's relatively easy to win by a large margin just by running against a divided opposition —see Wilson in 1912, Nixon in 1968, etc.)
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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2019, 10:52:27 PM »

If you want to play this game, George W. Bush is the only living Republican nominee to carry New Hampshire (in 2000) or New Mexico (in 2004).

(Bob Dole is still alive, so no Virginia or Colorado, but those will be added when Dole dies).
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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2021, 08:35:17 AM »

If you want to play this game, George W. Bush is the only living Republican nominee to carry New Hampshire (in 2000) or New Mexico (in 2004).

(Bob Dole is still alive, so no Virginia or Colorado, but those will be added when Dole dies).

As of this month, this is now true.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2021, 11:20:06 AM »

And I mean the only Democrat who lived for the last 45 years, and has won Indiana in a presidential election.

Every Republican candidate who is still alive has also won Indiana.

And Bill Clinton's the only one to net Montana or Arizona...where are you going with this?

Okay, now Biden took Arizona.
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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2021, 08:27:41 AM »

Example #673 why most of the people on this board suck.

"I'll state a fact."
"Well I don't like your stated fact, I'll post a competing fact that does not challenge your stated fact!"
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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2022, 04:25:52 AM »

Is Indiana very very conservative, or is it just mildly conservative and mostly Republican in party registration?  It just seems that there's a good-sized part of the Hoosier population, maybe young Hoosiers, that aren't that far to the right. 

Indiana had some bellwether districts in the House for many years, but that seems to have disappeared.  Democrats really lost touch with the people in a huge swath of the country in the 2010s - IN is one of those states, along with MO... the 2010 House election shows that the Blue Dog-style Democrat was accepted but most of those indies swung heavily to the right after 2010.
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