TW: If you read the Economist, you know every four years they do a series of articles on key swing states. Last week's was on Indiana, the fact that Indiana is competitive is in and of itself news since the last Dem they voted for was LBJ and before that FDR in '36. I post this article though because one I grew up there and several readers did as well and two the article focuses in on Martinsville where I went to high school. There are a lot of great folks in M-ville but for those of us familiar with M-ville the irony of Barack Obama opening a field office there will be obvious. I did not have the heart to highlight below the "Susie" quote, you will have to open the link.
From the Economist:
"...Indiana is next door to Illinois...and the two states share media markets. He can count on lots of support among the steel foundries and blighted minority communities in the state’s north-west, which is close to Chicago and has sizeable union rolls. Indianapolis, a city of 790,000 with its own large black population, is also Democratic territory, as is Bloomington, home to the University of Indiana’s flagship campus. But Democrats always do pretty well in these areas. In order to carry the state, Mr Obama will have to win elsewhere, too...South of Indianapolis, the state feels more like Kentucky and the old South, its hilly landscape dotted with livestock, roadside churches and small rural towns such as Martinsville, where, one could reasonably estimate, tattoos outnumber people...Mr Obama, indeed, probably won’t swing Martinsville’s Morgan County, which voted for Mr Bush by 48 points in 2004. His Indiana campaign nevertheless opened its 40th office there on October 6th."
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12376911
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