Why did Obama win Indiana in '08?
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Schiff for Senate
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« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2022, 12:58:15 AM »

If Obama really won the general election in Indiana owing to its proximity to Chicago, why is it that Hillary won the Indiana primary, when a myriad of Democratic Hoosiers live in the 1st congressional district, where the Chicago media market exerts its biggest influence?




Primary performance isn’t the same as general election unless by that same definition, Ted Cruz would have been a better fit for Wisconsin than Trump was vs Hillary


Yeah. I'm guessing Obama won some moderates/right-wingers who didn't vote in the Democratic primary and would've backed McCain over Clinton.
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« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2022, 06:27:58 PM »

A trifecta of economic disaster.  A telling area is Elkhart, a center for the RV industry. Look at what could all go wrong:

1. a scary economic meltdown. When people are comparing 2008 to 1929, that's horrid for the incumbent's Party.

2. a credit crunch. Even if many RVs are paid for in cash, many are bought on time-payment plans. When credit tightens, consumer purchases flee from big-ticket consumer items. RV's are about as big-ticket as one gets short of housing.

3. Soaring petroleum prices. There was speculative activity in petroleum as the last speculative game in town. I once saw gas prices at $5.49 a gallon in the autumn of 2008. (That would crash). RV's devour gasoline like a tiger devours meat.

By 2012 all of those were over, and Indiana voters went back to voting R.   
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« Reply #27 on: July 28, 2022, 06:43:18 PM »

Obama campaigned incredibly well in the rust belt, in both 2008 and 2012.

Combine that with a national environment where Republicans were loathed and blamed for the recession, and it puts Obama over the top in states like Indiana and Ohio.
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« Reply #28 on: July 28, 2022, 07:27:30 PM »

Obama campaigned incredibly well in the rust belt, in both 2008 and 2012.

Combine that with a national environment where Republicans were loathed and blamed for the recession, and it puts Obama over the top in states like Indiana and Ohio.

And yet he still lost "The Nation's Bellwether" to McCain.
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« Reply #29 on: July 29, 2022, 01:07:41 AM »

Obama campaigned incredibly well in the rust belt, in both 2008 and 2012.

Combine that with a national environment where Republicans were loathed and blamed for the recession, and it puts Obama over the top in states like Indiana and Ohio.

And yet he still lost "The Nation's Bellwether" to McCain.

Albeit very, very narrowly. And only if you refer to the bellwether state.
As regards the bellwether county, he won it either time.
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« Reply #30 on: July 29, 2022, 07:48:44 AM »

It didn’t hurt that McCain (realizing that if Indiana was even close the election was lost) put no money into defending the state. 
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