Posted on 09/05/2016 2:24:20 PM PDT by digger48
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The 2016 Presidential campaign entered the home stretch on Monday as both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump focused on the battleground state of Ohio.
Meantime, the race in Indiana is all but over.
Donald Trump is popular in the state and the addition of Mike Pence to the GOP ticket has made him even more popular.
A new poll published by Reuters shows that Indiana is likely out of reach for Hillary Clinton. It shows Trump with 56 percent of the vote in Indiana if the election were held now. Hillary Clinton would receive just 32 percent.
That same poll shows Clinton with a 6 point lead nationally.
Donald Trump was campaigning near Cleveland and at a Labor Day roundtable when he started off by sharing poll numbers.
“Ohio,” he said. “Trump is leading 46 to 43.”
He’s concerned about states where the race is close and Indiana is off the list. Statistician Nate Silver, on his website fivethirtyeight.com, gave Trump a 95 percent chance of winning Indiana in November.
Mike Pence is a big reason why the GOP nominee does so well here.
“And I think Hoosier voters are looking at Governor Pence and they see him in a new light,” said Republican Mike O’Brien on Indiana Week in Review. “They see him in a different context. They see him in a national context and he’s popular because of it.”
But some Democrats are critical of Pence.
“He’s the chief pooper scooper is what he is,” said Democrat Ann DeLaney. “I mean all he’s doing is running behind trying to say, ‘He really didn’t mean what he said. He really didn’t mean what he said.'”
Trump is hoping that the Pence influence will carry over to Ohio. Pence was with him at a pair of campaign stops Monday.
In the meantime, Hillary Clinton greeted reporters on her new campaign plane and then made stops in Ohio and Illinois, quite literally flying over Indiana.
Mike Pence will be in Indianapolis Tuesday night for a fundraiser at the JW Marriott. He’ll be collecting cash from Indiana supporters that will be spent in other states.
We Hoosiers know a sick sow when we see one.
Maybe this will help pull Todd Young across the finish line. We do not need the return of carpetbagger Evan Bayh.
Ignore all media
Get Out The Vote
My Mother worked at a hair salon at a Marriot in Indianapolis. But that was 50 years ago. My father and I got to meet Joe E. Brown and Roy Rogers.
Romney carried Indiana by about 54-44%.
If Trump is doing better than Romney did here, he’s probably doing better than Romney in other states too.
Obama only beat Romney by about 51-48% overall. So while Indiana is not really in doubt, the margin in this poll has got to be noted, and could well be happening in other states too.
56% - in line with Trump’s real national numbers.
Now that is a blowout win in IN.
I have seen a grand total of two Hillary signs around these parts. And while not everywhere, I’ve seen far more Trump signs.
Up around Geist Reservoir, there’s a road with telelphone poles very close to the road. A few of them have a cement casing around the base. I saw one where TRUMP was painted on that casing in Red, White, and Blue.
NOBODY is going to be stealing or running over that sign.
Ohio is something of a bellwether, and a 9 point difference from the national average seems nonsensical.
Disagree: Young is a get a long go along Boehner GOPE acolyte. There is no difference between him and Bayh
Even Scott county who has had but one elected republican in recent years is YUGE for DJT
I’m seeing more and more Trump signs all over the area, but I have yet to see a single Clinton sign.
A motherlode of D from CA, where Trump won’t win.
Don’t worry about it because only state and not - national - polls matter.
Trump is poised to carry enough states to win in the EC.
This is way, way better than Minion did in 2012.
2012 was Mitt +10, so this as Trump +24 is interesting momentum.
While not by those magins I do expect Trump to take IA, MI, WI, OH and PA as well.
She doesn’t have the support or enthusiasm in the rust belt to come out of the cities in these states with enough margin to hold off the enthusiastic and massive Support Trump will get from the suburban and rural portions of these states.
This needs to carry over to the Senate race.
Two words: F*** Cruz.
A Democrat normally draws in the low to mid 40s even when losing.
Hillary is so unpopular, she’s polling in the low 30s!
Not typical of IN. Hillary isn’t doing as well as Obama did and Obama was the first Democrat to win IN in 2008.
I wonder what the figure is out of Terre Haute - bellwether Vigo County. It should give us a clue about the national race.
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