[fieldmarshaldj]

With respect to Terre Haute, they've had a high turnover of Mayors, no one recently has managed to win a second term. Bart Peterson was trying to go for a 3rd term in Indy, and that didn't go over well. And the sole reason the False Messiah took Indiana with a threadbare plurality of 49.9% to 49% (he only won a paltry 15 counties), was because Bob Barr cost McCain.

Contrast that with 1964, the last time the Dem won the state, and you can see a pretty clear preference for LBJ, who won 56-44%. Note Goldwater carried Porter County (directly east of Lake County) in '64 and McCain lost it in '08, the only one Goldie beat him out in.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

I’ll grant Barr probably cost McCain Indiana, but I also think he took the state for granted. I’m looking at populous Allen County in the northeast, home of Fort Wayne, it went for Bush 63%-36%, but only went for McCain 52%-47%. The state really shouldn’t have been close enough for any third party candidate to cost McCain the win (or for that matter, vote fraud).