Under water in Indiana

[struggle4progress]

Tony Cook
Published 10:15 a.m. ET Oct. 25, 2017 | Updated 1:35 p.m. ET Oct. 25, 2017

... Just 41 percent approve of the job Trump is doing as president, compared to 45 percent who disapprove, according to the results of the Old National Bank/Ball State University 2017 Hoosier Survey.

The negative approval rating suggests a significant decline in support for Trump since he won the home state of his vice president, Mike Pence, by a margin of 19 percentage points nearly a year ago.

“These survey results add to the evidence that the president’s approval has slipped a great deal since January,” said Chad Kinsella, a political science professor at the Bowen Center for Public Affairs, which conducts the annual survey ...

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/25/poll-donald-trump-under-water-indiana/797998001/

[zipplewrath]

1. But would they vote for Clinton?

During the W administration, I knew many a folk that were unhappy with his performance, but there was no way they were going to vote for Kerry.

[bearsfootball516]

3. There are some people that wont ever vote Democratic, no matter what

But if they’re disappointed enough in Trump that they don’t vote for him at all, that’s still a win.

[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.

[lapfog_1]

2. and the real question is why 41 percent approve of the job he is doing

do a million people need to die in a war for them to disapprove?

do we have to repeat the 1930s great depression?

[fierywoman]

5. Would they vote for an Independent?

[Freethinker65]

6. Anecdotal. But I recently drove back to Chicago through backroads Indiana.

Hardly ever have I seen so many stars and bars. Rural white Indiana wanting “their” confederacy back.