As I've noted before, Elkhart County here in Indiana has the highest unemployment rate in the freakin' country. Add a very well established local company just shutting it's doors, leaving employees with nothing- no insurance, nothing. Blue Indiana indeed.
Walter Shapiro looks at why Indiana is suddenly up for grabs.
"Obama's unexpected strength here cannot simply be attributed to the Chicago media market, which reaches only about 20 percent of the state, or a heavy African-American vote (Indiana is 86 percent white)."
Instead, it's about jobs. "Indiana -- whose economy more revolves around manufacturing than that of any other state -- has also lost 150,000 factory jobs since 2000, and its 6.2 percent unemployment rate in September was close to a 20-year high."
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