Turning tide in Indiana (media to GOP you have already lost now drop dead)

Boston Globe ^ | April 26, 2008 | Charlie Savage

[Impy]

FORT WAYNE, INDIANA - Throughout her life, Linda Eggert, a 51-year-old stay-at-home mother, has been a staunch Republican. But on May 6, when the marathon Democratic primary comes to Indiana, Eggert will cast her ballot for Hillary Clinton. more stories like this

* Obama making plans to attract voters and money for November * Obama, Clinton spend time in low-priority states * Poll: Obama, Clinton running tight race in Indiana poll * Pelosi: Clinton, Obama sharing the ticket not a good idea * Harvard Survey: Young voters favor Obama *

"Everybody is kind of rethinking their politics because of everything that is going on," Eggert said, citing her growing concerns about Iraq and the economy. She added, "Do I think [Indiana] could go Democrat for once in November? I hope it could."

Long an afterthought in presidential politics, Indiana Democrats - who haven't delivered their state in the general election since 1964, and haven't had a meaningful say in picking their party's nominee since 1968 - see the growing excitement over the contest between Clinton and Barack Obama as an opportunity to build up muscle in places where the party's national reach had atrophied.

The interest in the Clinton-Obama fight, they say, is helping to shift political identities. Thousands of people are signing up as new voters - 383,954 Hoosiers have registered since the 2006 election - while some people who have always voted Republican are deciding that they might just be comfortable casting a ballot for a Democrat.

[xmission]

These guys must seriously think this kind of crap will cause other “Staunch Republicans” to jump ship. In reality, if it were to do anything, it’d make the republican rank and file make sure that they vote.

The MSM, and especially rags like the globe are more meaningless every day.

[L,TOWM]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_delegate_count.html

Do the math yourself. And buy plenty of your favorite microwave popcorn.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Part of psychological warfare waged by the media on behalf of their leftist rodent comrades. It’s about dividing and demoralizing the GOP voters. You never see similar attacks made on the Democrat base.

[xmission]

“Fairness doctrine” seemingly wouldn’t apply here? :)

[DTogo]

Thanks to Jorge Bush and now Juan McCain, I use the tagline I do...

[John W]

“Do I think [Indiana] could go Democrat for once in November? I hope it could.”

Not a chance in Hell, Linda.

[bilhosty]

Some one needs to check this LInda Egert out and see if she was ever a Republican. I doubt it. Any Freepers out there in Fort Wayne who can go to the Allen county court house and do a search?

[bilhosty]

It has been a while since I lived in Indiana. But, I think if anything the state would be getting more Red. After all the Unions that had such strength are in decline. The Auto workers and the Steel workers had had their ranks seriously depleted by economic changes. Gary and the surrounding region is in sharp decline. There are very few Hispanics moving in, except around Elkhart. The Dem’s did enjoy a resurgence in southern Indiana which used to be Conservative Southern Dem, But in spite of the ‘06 elections have plainly changed to the GOP. I think some of this confusion is caused by some of the German ancestry voters who seem to drift back and forth causing a drift in Midwestern politics. But if I know Indiana, in this state they will come one to the GOP in the presidential election.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

First serious woman candidate for the office, and she can’t do the math!

[Sender]

I hear them on talk shows too. "I've been a Republican all my life, but I'm sick of everything Republicans stand for now and I'm voting for change."

A few may be genuine, but you know the fakes when it's obvious they have ALWAYS hated everything Republicans stood for all their lives.

[Always Right]

Bob Dole won Indiana.

[shekkian]

The Republicans already have their nominee. The Democrats don’t. Republicans are switching parties just to keep the two rats in the fight.

[ripley]

“the idea is to cause the democrat party to implode”

if it implodes, will it be destroyed? it would still have its base; hard left, blue collar, ethnics, and others who would never abandon the democrat party.

it seems that it would just regroup and come back as a different monster with the help of the manipulative hand of the mainstream media. it would just have a different name, still filled with wannabe totalitarian scu&bags. (please forgive the expletive, but it’s the most appropriate.)

the question is, if it implodes, what form would the reincarnation take?

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Indiana will stay Red this November. Bet your house on it.

[wolfcreek]

Folks in Denver are already freakin out. 1968 Part II?

[counterpunch]

if it implodes, will it be destroyed? it would still have its base; hard left, blue collar, ethnics, and others who would never abandon the democrat party.

Well, the Democrat party isn't ever going to “implode”. (Believe me, the GOP is far more likely to do that first.
We have far more stubborn stupids than they do. Just look at all the people we have threatening to vote 3rd party or not at all instead of supporting McCain.)

The idea really is for the Democrats to be in such disarry that they can't get it together for a few election cycles.
What it really means is infighting, recrimination, party hacks cannibalising each other. It will take them a a good generation or more to throw out the orchestrators of their defeat — Howard Dean, the Clintons, Pelosi and Reid — and find functional leadership. This, I think, is what it means for them to “implode”. A total collapse of leadership and unity. We don't so much want to destroy the party known as “Democrats” so much as we want to destroy this particular incarnation of it, and this particular bunch of degenerates running it.

But even short of that, so long as Democrats can't agree — and they can't and won't this election — then enough marginal Democrats — Reagan Democrats and such — will peel off, giving the GOP the victory at the margins — where elections are fought and won.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

McCain, like him or not, will win 60% of the vote in Indiana. And nationally, 55% of the vote. Early on, I was worried. The results in Iowa seemed to confirm that the democrat base was fired up and the gop was in big trouble. Well, the tide has turned. Now the world is seeing obama for who he truly is. A racist with ties to a terrorist. A socialist who can't answer a simple question in a debate.
Right now, many of the ‘new’ democrat voters are Reagan democrats that have sat out a lot of primaries. They're voting against either hillary or obama, not for them. In open primary states, the independents are voting democrat because it's the only race of consequence. And they're voting against either hillary or obama. McCain would beat hillary in PA. Most of the small town democrats that voted for her, did so because they hated obama more.

[MNJohnnie]

Only problem is these “life long Republicans” are utter liars. Moveon.org and other wacko Commie want to be groups teach their stooges to say this stuff to Reporters. And our “Objective Journalists” in their slavish whoredome to the dictates of the DNC, never bother to actually check to see if these people are lying to them. Do a background check and you find that most of these “life long Republicans” have a long history of activism in Leftist causes and have done nothing but donate money to Democrat Candidates

[lowbridge]

"Lifelong Republican" Obama Supporter In Pennsylvania Exposed As A Fraud

[muawiyah]

Indiana voters are hard to figure out in advance. Long time ago I remember that the AFL-CIO guys decided the only way to get the attention of the politicians was to do a zig zag across the voting machine. They'd vote for a Dem, then a Rep, then a Dem, then a Rep.

I don't recall the year but I know Vance Hartke knew about it. He got in the Senate ~ his buddies on either side of him on the ticket elected.

Here we have several hundred thousand Republicans signing on to vote in the Dem primary. Do they hate the Hildabeast or Obamasama?

We wait with bated breath eh!