For land sakes it went for Dole.
Speak Indiana Freepers what went wrong? Was it just the Obama ad blitz?
Obviously Evan Bayh would have put this in the bag for him.
ACORN?
PEOPLE ‘MOVING IN’ TO THE STATE JUST TO VOTE?
WE WONT FIX THIS MESS TILL WE GET RID OF THE DEM SECRETARY OF STATES AND AGs
Obama has literally bought his way into the Presidency and cheated with the help of ACORN.
I'm calling it a subverted coup.
Illinois is next to Indiana, and Gary is basically a Chicago suburb. Gary was probably asleep for Kerry, but turned on the fraud machine full tilt for 0.
Obama literally spent and campaigned the state into submission.
McCain had more or less ignored IN until it was too late.
some stuff i noticed. In 2004 18-29 was 14% and went 52-47 for Bush. Last night it was 19% and went 63-35 for Obama.
Bush won whites 65-34, McCain won then 54-45. I have no idea how to explain a 20 pt shift in the white vote of a state that has been rock solid GOP for 50 years and even voted against FDR for god’s sake. It doesn’t really make any sense.
White women in particular went from +31 for Bush to only +3 for McCain. Again, hard to really figure.
(5 said they decided yesterday and went 50-46 for Obama. In a 20K win, that’s a big deal, although in 2004 late deciders went 56-38 for Kerry so who knows?
In 2004 terrorism beat the economy 19-17 as top issue with 24% saying moral values. Yesterday the economy beat terrorism 60-8 with 0% saying moral values.
The GOP went from +14 party ID edge to +5. Bush won them 95-5, McCain 86-13.
Both won conservatives by the same amount, but conservatives went from 42 to 36% while liberals grew from 14-20%.
Bush’s approval went from 61-35 for to 32-67 against.
Obama blanketed the state with ads and outspent McCain hugely, and also had a 100% developed organiztaion from the primnary in May where the GOP hasn’t seriously competed in IN ever.
Add it all up, and we are where we are
I’m sorry, what can a little guy like me say? I did my civic duty, I had a blast too. But you know what you guys, when the chips come down I’m quite confident that VOTER FRAUD will be the last thing anyone in the media shines a light on. Indiana, as well as the other 57, thanks for notihing...
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What happened in Allen County Indiana? Marion County? Green County?
Indiana was a Republican stronghold from the Whitcomb Administration through Governor Robert D. Orr, may he rest in peace.
Another consideration is the huge influx of Hispanics into Indiana.
I think part of it was the ground game on election day. I am willing to bet that 95% of Democrat homes in the state were visited and offered rides yesterday.
We bought our home from registered Democrats who didn’t update the voter rolls, and we had someone stop by twice to make sure they voted. They came to the door to ask specifically for them, not to simply make sure the adults in the home had already voted.
I think the big thing to work at is the ground game for 435 representatives and 100 senators. We need good strong candidates in every district, including RINO districts. Obama will overreach and if we let the anger motivate us to something useful, we can change face of the legislature in 2 years. This is not a time to retreat because the pendulum will definitely swing back.
I think a disgust with who is in office is the strongest motivator in politics. Bush had near universal scorn and Obama used it to rally the base and to pull in the undecided voters. Let’s return the favor in two years.
ACORN added enough voters to the roles to push Obama over, illegal early voting sites, large welfare crowd that wants their money from the bad rich people, a failed Bush second term, large amount of cash and time spent by the Dems.
Shall I go on?
One additional point: Indiana is touted as having one of the most stringent voter id laws, but it’s a joke.
We walk into the room and simply show id at the first table. Then we put our id away, walk to another part of the room, and sign the voter registration rolls. There seems to be no provision in the law that matches the id to the voter roll to the person actually voting.
Indiana Freeper here. Karl Rove said it hours before the polls closed. Lake County would just hold their ballots and at the end put in enough for Obumscum to win. They did.
People showed up to vote whom we’ve never seen before because they never bothered to get out and do it. One neighbor had not voted for 20 years. Obama motivated them.
Also, I heard at one point that ACORN had registered 105 percent of the Indianapolis population.
Just sayin’.
Lake County decided to do a brother a favor and give him just enough for the win. What was it, 2:30 in the morning before it was called? The marggins in most of the counties were not all that different from 2008.
Commercials for obama where about 80 to 1. McCain ignored Indiana. The GOP started running commercials late in the game.
Indiana is a special case.
The big issue there was ethanol subsidies, and McCain’s opposition to them.