I'm sure somebody has already asked this question and has already answered it, however I feel that it needs to be answered once more for my benefit. How the hell is Barack Obama tied with John McCain in Indiana, when John Kerry lost Indiana back in 2004 by nearly twenty percentage points? In my books, Obama does not seem like the type that would appeal to those in the Hoosier State.
The only explanation that I can give is that 2006 may have been prophetic in Indiana. Perhaps the state really has made a sharp turn towards the Democrats, not towards Obama specifically (although the polls of the gubernatorial race counter this theory). Now,
why the state is suddenly much more positively disposed towards Democrats is a whole different story.
