Posted on 11/12/2012 8:12:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Each year I drive across the eastern half of the country twice, including the states of Ohio and Indiana. Without benefit of signage it would be hard to tell them apart. Each has an industrial base in the north and a heartland dedicated largely to agriculture.
Each state is 86 percent white and has a Republican governor. Over the last 25 years, I think I have stopped at every McDonald's on 1-70 and 1-71, and the service is uniformly upbeat and amiable along the whole route.
In 2008 both states voted for Barack Obama for president, Ohio by four percent, Indiana by one percent. In 2012, Ohio voted for Obama by a two percent margin, but Indiana voted for Romney by a 10.5 percent differential. Some 250,000 fewer Hoosiers voted for Obama in 2012 than in 2008, and Romney topped McCain's total by nearly 70,000 votes.
Despite the filter of a hopelessly corrupt media, huge numbers of Indiana citizens saw through the Obama ruse. In this unproductive week of finger pointing and teeth gnashing, I am prepared to argue that Indiana tells us potentially more about America's future than Ohio.
In the week before the election, I was invited to speak at my alma mater, Purdue University. As I drove around West Lafayette, what caught my eye was the absence of Obama signs. I did not see one, not even in the faculty neighborhoods. As Obama's unpopularity grew during the last four years, his team at some point decided to concede Indiana. From their perspective, Indiana lacked one tactical asset that Ohio had -- early voting.
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Vigo Co in IN, Ottawa Co in OH, and Prince William Co in VA all went for Baraka Clause.
The sad part about Vigo was Gov elect Mike Pence did not win Vigo.
Jack Cashill makes an observation :
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In fact, college students have always been ignorant. In uncontested states like Indiana, they usually don’t bother voting. The election of 2008 was the exception. Obama hit the student world like Justin Bieber, who was also discovered in 2008. That year, students voted because they were excited. In 2012, they voted because they were trucked to the polls. They added the leftward drift to the exit polling data. Given their lack of land lines, it is unlikely that anyone had polled them before.
This pattern was repeated in all the states with early voting. In Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, and North Carolina, more registered Democrats voted early than Republican — in some states, by as much as 50 percent more.
This election is over. We lost. But let us not write off the republic quite yet. Obama had nearly 7.5 million fewer votes in 2012 than he had in 2008. A whole lot of people obviously wised up. Yes, Romney had 1.3 million fewer votes than McCain, but 1.1 million of those votes were in California and another half-million were in New York, two states where Republicans have all but given up.
More to the point, Obama had a lower percentage of the vote in 2012 than in 2008 in every single state but New Jersey. The Sandy photo op would seem to have paid off. It might have even saved his election.
Until the dust settles, I would ask the Republican punditry to cease trolling for more votes among new classes of the clueless — they will always prefer Democrats — and invest their energy instead in educating the ignorant and tightening the electoral process.
Huh? What’s the lesson from Indiana - that early voting favors Dems? That’s not very actionable.
we won this election fair and square, they cheated and stole the election fair and square on their eyes.
3 states which were swing states were close and if we had the balls to stop this fraud , call out the media and ivestigate who voted nad how many times then we would ave won.
Not to mention PA,WI,NM too, many can move on but I will not.
oh nad about the black population voting, they voted liek they did based out of their racist views towards whites, pure and simple but we won;t hear that either off this currpt media
the black community wears it racism with pride, my kids always tell me how they put down whites, how they refuse to mix, how they laugh at how they can get in their words” white b%%%% they;re easy”
I believe Lake Co. went that way also, Gary being the armpit of this state...
Barack Obama is their ‘OJ Simpson’ candidate.
No early voting in IN ? I live here and we started on Oct 8.
Arm pit of the state you are rating it too high, I would call it a lower orifice.
can;t put pictures up here but I have a picture of a crowd of blacks and whites watching the TV when that verdict came in.
The blacks jumoed up and cheered and laughed, the whites had their heads on their hands with shock on their face.
Whilst we keep teaching blacks how they were put down, how they were denied because of the white man then we will always have angry blacks who hate whites and we will always have racism on their communities.
Imagine always being told at public schools how the white man put your lot down, and then have years of that?
That is why we have what we have today.
Blacks not informed , not understanding that many races have been put down and not understanding the constitution whilst we keep giving handouts .
I had a black family tell me and my kids that they knew nothing about the Dems segregating the military under Wilson, how the Dems wee the party of the KKK,, Slavery anti civil rights.
They then told me they were voting because republicans were going to cut their food stamps and welfare.
The media will never mention black racism because it does not fit their narative and because some think they will be caleld racist by those who are actually the real racists.
and Trayvon is their son
Remember when the Cenusus Bureau went under Rahm Emanuel’s control 2 years ago?
I’d bet $1000 that the Obama campaign illegally had all of that data, and they used it to their huge advantage for a massive get out the vote effort, and their huge micro targeting campaign.
we won this election fair and square, they cheated and stole the election fair and square on their eyes.
3 states which were swing states were close and if we had the balls to stop this fraud , call out the media and ivestigate who voted nad how many times then we would ave won.
Not to mention PA,WI,NM too, many can move on but I will not.
oh nad about the black population voting, they voted liek they did based out of their racist views towards whites, pure and simple but we won;t hear that either off this currpt media
the black community wears it racism with pride, my kids always tell me how they put down whites, how they refuse to mix, how they laugh at how they can get in their words” white b%%%% they;re easy”
Wasn't Indiana just attacked by a CIA predator drone ?
When I was in high school the dean held a class for current events once a week and you had better have read the study materials for that week. We knew more than any of our parents or most politicians an government leaders in the world.
It was a great class and we learned more about the world than any of thought we would.
No, it had a natural gas explosion.
...or Libertarians, but unfortunately the GOP establishment is even more hostile to libertarian ideas than it is to the tea party.
Ron Paul, a pro-life Republican attracted a lot of the youth vote, because (1) his message on economics and the role of government was strongly libertarian, and (2) he didn't mince words about what he believed.
I was not a Ron Paul supporter, but he does blow up many of the memes being put forth by the talking heads at the moment, so it's worth talking about his campaign.
Paul doesn’t blow any meme up.
He is a cult conman who works his scam through politics.
Don’t read anything too much into Pence losing Vigo. Ex-Speaker Gregg, Pence’s opponent, represented Vigo County as part of his legislative district. Mitch Daniels carried Vigo in 2008 even as we lost the state for President. I was more troubled with the margin for Marion County/Indianapolis. Daniels won it with 56-42% in 2008 and Pence lost it 36-59%, a dreadful showing (Willard got 38%).
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