Trump wins Indiana
Source: MSNBC
Declared with 10% reporting
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,691 posts)Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Blue Owl
(50,362 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)Frustrated that it is already called. It won't change the end but will change the margin - the northwestern part of the state bordering Chicago - didn't close til 700pm and is the largest concentration of Dem voters in the state.
It is so fatiguing to live here - even when living in a blue dot.
salin
(48,955 posts)pfitz59
(10,381 posts)Did Biden even campaign there?
salin
(48,955 posts)house.
Good news on the IN-5 front:
Link to tweet
Eric Berman
@WIBC_EricBerman
Level 1:
#IN05 early returns: Hale 52-45%. That mainly reflects 100K early votes in Hamilton (Spartz +4500 in those votes) and the first few vote centers in Marion County (Hale stronghold).
(Note that as recently this seat was held Dan Burton (he of the shoot up the watermelon re: Vince Foster fame).
OverBurn
(950 posts)I thought Indiana had turned a corner when we voted for Obama in 2008, I was wrong. I think the racism just festered and grew after that. Lived here most of my life, I'll probably die here, hating a lot of my fellow hoosiers.
salin
(48,955 posts)When the state house kept kicking the can on changing the tax structure after the inventory tax was ruled unconstitutional (around 1998) led to a forced big hike in property tax right at the same time the Tea Party was taking off in the summer/fall of 2009.
I was in Indy at the time and the Mayor was expected to glide to a 3rd term. Til in the last 1-2 months protest city (via the tea party), and Bart Peterson was soon former mayor.
It is all I can figure - as to why the GOP here became so much more radical than it had been for decades (ya pockets far right - but state wide most GOP/Dems were always pretty moderate: Orr, Bayh, O'Bannon, and Daniels. (Okay Daniels was hardline economic right -but moderate on culture wars and most areas of governance.)
I think most (even GOP) still don't like Pence - they just love the tribalism of Trump, and others... well its the talibornigan faction.
That said - I am going to pay close attention to the final vote spread between Biden Trump and expect it to be much decreased from 2016, and attention to the rates of turnout by age in the urban and suburban parts of the state.
It did feel like we were turning purple in 2006 and 2008. I think that was real - and still hope that the fervor/radicalization will keep wearing off and wane. Am hoping that in the next 2 cycles we return to purple. wishful thinking, eh?
Harker
(14,018 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)The VPs home state reports Trump a winner before all other states. Man, whatre the chances of that?
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)Y'know?