Obama should campaign more in Indiana. I think the current Indiana poll reflects the Clintons campaigning on that weird Dygnus day or something like that. There was a lot of media attention to them.

"could give her the footing she needs to keep going forward with the campaign."

Fascinating:

If she loses badly, she changes the narrative -- the states she loses doesn't matter, she refuses to bow out, she'll keep going until Denver!

If she wins, it's more impetus to keep on going. Even though she can't win and won't win.

How would a 9% win give her the footing she needs to keep going? There is nothing left after that...if she doesn't dominate Pennsylvania and every other race between now and the end it is over, period.

Who gives a shit if she did win Indiana? Seriously, it doesn't matter, that is how far behind she is.

Don't worry, I'll fix it. I am going to Indy this weekend to register voters and canvass.

Clinton may well win Indiana, though I'd guess it would be closer to 5 points than 10, but if Obama only wins black voters 79-21, I'll eat my own pants. With mustard.

79-21? Please.

Obama needs a bus tour through Indiana. When people see him they like him. He's incredibly charming.

Don't worry, I'll fix it. I am going to Indy this weekend to register voters and canvass.

(-.-)(_ _)(-.-) - I bow in your general direction.

Thanks.

funny how one poll on indiana can release the hounds of the underworld. i am sure hillary would apologize to each one of you poor obama supporters if she had time, but she does not. cry me a river

Excellent!!

Hillary's got it about sewed up for sure now!!

Step Off Obama!

indiana is offset by north carolina
kentucky is offset by oregon
puerto rico is offset by montana/south dakota
rest is about even or small

and his numbers always improve with time

she's toast

Wow, Steve...must be lonely for you in Seattle. Can't say I know another Hillary supporter out here. Oh wait, there was that one woman at the caucus...

Good thing he's coming here this weekend to campaign. Most Hoosiers I know love Obama, so I imagine this number will change. :)

Evening.

A very good news from PA...

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/pa-jewish-leaders-praise-obama-in-letter/

Pa. Jewish Leaders Praise Obama in Letter
By ARIEL ALEXOVICH
Hillary Rodham Clinton might have the endorsement of two of the top Jewish names in Pennsylvania politics — Governor Ed Rendell and Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Philadelphia — but 70 other leading Jewish professionals from the Keystone State would rather see Barack Obama at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Josh Shapiro, the deputy speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, drafted an open letter to the state’s Jewish community on behalf of Mr. Obama, the candidate who boasts what Mr. Shapiro calls a “100 percent voting record on Israel issues.”

In an interview, Mr. Shapiro said it’s time to, “as Jews, stand up and say how much we admire Senator Obama for condemning the words of his pastor and making sure he is Israel’s ally in the Middle East.”

The letter, which can be found online here at the Jewish news service JTA, praises Senator Obama at length for his recent speech on race and argues that he shouldn’t be held accountable for incendiary remarks made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

While we are profoundly disturbed by the unpatriotic, bigoted and anti-Semitic comments of the retired pastor of Senator Obama’s church, we are moved that Barack stood up at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia earlier this month, and “condemned in unequivocal terms the statements of Reverend Wright” and expressed his own views on issues near and dear to the heart and soul of the Jewish community.

Specifically, in repudiating the remarks of his former pastor, Senator Obama said Reverend Wright “expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country…a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.”

“We respectfully ask that you stand with Senator Barack Obama and vote for him on April 22,” the letter ends.

Henri Barkey, chairman of the international relations program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., is an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign who affixed his signature to the letter. Senator Obama has been “misrepresented” by his association with Reverend Wright, Mr. Barkey said, and Jewish people should hear the truth about Mr. Obama’s pro-Israel policies from fellow Jewish people.

“This is how American politics can get — very dirty and personal,” Mr. Barkey said. “My sense in this day and age is you don’t let anything fester. You set the record straight, and perhaps that should have been done earlier. When you don’t respond quicker, people assume it’s true.”

Please forward to every one...

Living next door in IL, I'd like to offer a rundown of the demo of my neighbor.
Northwest: Basically a suburb of Chicago. Very heavy AA population. Edge to BO.
Northeast: Center is South Bend but since most of the students are from out of state, can't help much. Not a great college town either. The other main industry is tourism from the weekenders from Chicago. There is a Bubba pop here. Slight edge to BO.
CentralNorth: All areas north of Indy. Very rural and home to the Bubba. Purdue U is here but not as much help since it's a heavy engineering school and not as political as a Lib Arts. Slight edge to HRC.
CentralSouth: Indy isn't a city as much as it is a conglomeration of suburbs. This will be the battleground. Bloomington is home to IU and a huge BO base. Edge to BO
South: Bubba country. HRC's base. Terre Haute hardly counts as a college town. Edge HRC.

In all, it will be a battle but the good news is, BO doesn't have to worry about 1/3 of the state since it's very much for him. He'll have time to work on the battleground and HRC's Bubbas.

Who cares about Indiana? Lets make sure Pennsylvania goes into the Obama column. Actually, lets make sure that should Clinton win PA, it sucks the financial lifeblood (or what is left of it after stiffing the little vendors) out of her campaign.

I'm going to Philly to motivate voters on the 12th, I'd be estatic for Clinton to win a Pyrrhic victory of >7 points.

A series of double digit victories in Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico would be pretty forceful evidence against Obama's claims to the nomination. Add the struggle over Florida and Michigan --which Obama implicitly concedes, in virtue of his passive-aggressive resistance to either a revote or seating them as originally voted, that he cannot carry -- and his case is on life support. If Hillary were to have a surge and squeak out a narrow victory in North Carolina, Obama would be done.

Lee Hamilton just endorsed Obie so soon will see the fat-ass lady sing.

by the way: the Clintons must be destroyed

Hillary Delenda Est

Excuse me, but what "unpatriotic, bigoted and anti-Semitic comments" by Jeremiah Wright?

Even these so-called Jewish leaders in Pennsylvania who are supporting Obama can't keep themselves from libeling the man.

I have a more optimistic view of Indiana. There are several cities that are very close to Chicago, indeed as close as could be considered suburbs. Obama could do well there. Also I don't believe any active hate groups have enough members in any one state to influence a vote. They are a very marginal portion of the lunatic fringe. Take a look at the hate group distribution map:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp
Notice there are more in WA state than IN. In WA Obama won by about 68% to 35%. He also almost won TX with the largest concentration of such groups in the US.
Indiana will be tough because the southern part of the state borders the south and I do think that the rural areas are MUCH more conservative that the rural parts of some of the western states Obama has won. He'll close the gap after he spends more time there and they get to know him better. I think he can win it. Hillary's liberal flow of lies doesn't hurt either.
I love the latest: She opposed the war before Obama did. !.