I do like the “rising tide lifts all boats” theory (or at least the suggestion that a tide in one place is at least an indicator elsewhere), but out of curiosity, since I’m not from there, has any part of Indiana been more adversely affected than the rest of the country to account for such a huge swing there?
It's actually a relatively low percentage of the white vote. In southern states, the GOP routinely gets over 70% of the white vote, which makes up for the fact that southern states have more blacks a % of their populations, who, as in the rest of the country, vote 9 to 1 for the Dems, due to their support for freebies and legally-mandated racial preferences.
I can’t speak for other areas of Indiana, but around here, they are building hundreds of those f’n 400 foot windmills in some of the best cropland in the country.
Property values around them have plummetted. Nobody want to live around the damn things. A $200,000 house before the housing bubble hit dropped their value by about 20%.
Obama Quixote and his windmills, just brought them down another 40%.
I know a few long time Democrats who will be living and farming in the shadows of those things. And many of the non-farmers are selling out.
Believe me when I say, they speak of Obama in terms that would get me banned from the internet if I posted them.
Obamas Economic Recovery Chief, Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, is smiling. Those 65 ton nacelles on top of the mast, are built by none other than GE.
I haven’t been able to find out yet if they were actually built in the USA.