Under water in Indiana

[karynnj]

4. Indiana voted for Obama in 2008

Obviously some people were willing to vote either party, even if they more often voted for Republicans.

I grew up in Indiana and have a lot of family there - but I was from Lake county, on the Illinois border, which is extremely Democratic. However, I went to college in Bloomington, another reliably blue area, where there were people from the entire state. Admittedly, that was decades ago.

I think in picking Clinton and Kerry, my favorite statesman from my generation, you have picked two people for which people had long ago developed opinions. I suspect that Kerry might have done better had the Ken Burns series been done a few years before the election. That would have countered a lot of the lies about his protests, which were the real reason some hated him. Consider that Evan Bayh was a very popular Governor who was then Senator until he opted to retire from a seat he likely still would have.

Indiana is maybe red violet -- too red to be purple, but not solid red. For the right Democrat, it is a possibility.