Indiana Exit Poll: Trump towers over Cruz with late deciders, 72% want wall

[brooklynite]

Prntly:

Late deciders swung decisively to Donald Trump according to the polls, and at 6PM early votes will be tallied.

72% of Indiana GOP voters want a wall, while 24% are voting only for the “stop trump” movement, a major setback.

[pampango]

1. "72% of Indiana GOP voters want a wall"

[LisaM]

2. 72% of them want a wall?

People in Indiana?

This is disturbing - a border wall in Mexico would have almost zero effect on people in Indiana. Of course, that wall will never be built, but the fact that the concept of it rallies so many voters is something that every candidate should pay attention to. It's quite easy to mock other peoples' insecurities. To do so dismisses them as unimportant or nonexistent. But it doesn't seem that way to the people who feel them.

I'm sure that there have been other elections that tried to play on similar fears, and of course this "wall" is really only symbolic, but the fact is, there is a very tense voting population out there. I don't think candidates need to pander to those voters, but I think it would behoove any candidate - or any of us - to try and understand those fears.

[KamaAina]

5. That would cut Michigan off from Illinois!

[LisaM]

6. Oh, well, as a Michigander, I guess I could support

a wall that would sequester the Great Lakes State from those vowel states......

[chowder66]

3. Wanting a wall really means freedom to get their hate on

They don't give a rats ass about a wall. I'm sure many of them haven't ever left the damn state let alone traveled to the borders along Mexico. But the more privileged kids go to spring break there!! So whatever.

How do these people even know how to exhale?

[Moostache]

4. Not surprising at all in that state...Martinsville and the KKK have a history and a legacy.

Martinsville, Indiana is known in Indiana as one of the most bigoted, racist areas of the state. The Ku Klux Klan was headquartered in Martinsville at one time and, well, the effects linger. This image from the small city has taken the state by storm.

http://bilerico.lgbtqnation.com/2008/10/martinsville_indiana.php

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. -
It's been 45 years since Carol Jenkins was killed on the streets of Martinsville.

The crime went unsolved for decades and city leaders are still working to erase its reputation as a racist town.

Kim Fisher's roots run deep in Martinsville. The cutting, snipping and pruning are all for the city's image. She is too young to understand the murder case that tarnished it on this day in 1968.

http://www.wthr.com/story/23447014/2013/09/16/martinsville-still-trying-to-clean-image-45-years-after-murder

The article spends a lot of ink trying to whitewash the reputation of Martinsville, but I can tell you from personal experience the town's reputation is quickly established in the minds of incoming Freshmen at Indiana University (some 25-35 miles south of Martinsville in Bloomington, IN.). It is known as the KKK's Indiana central hub and has long carried that taint proudly. That was true when I was a student in the late'80's and early 90's and it was true in the aforementioned article from just 2 years ago:

Yet 45 years after the crime and a decade after the arrest, "That's one of the towns you don't really want to stop in because of notions of the Ku Klux Klan and racism," said Floyd Hobson, a student at Indiana University.

[DesertRat]

7. Aargh!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. All GOP candidates and some voters deserve a "wall" and bars

[and Chinese satellite operators need to be investigated]