# Why is Indiana so pro-Bush?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 30, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-indiana-so-pro-bush/272083 "2004-10-30T23:16:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-indiana-so-pro-bush/272083/41 "2004-11-01T14:46:09Z")

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Oops, I completely left Illinois out of that list. It’s obviously a guaranteed blue state each election year.

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-indiana-so-pro-bush/272083/42 "2004-11-01T20:24:36Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> Indianapolis has a 2nd term Democrat in the mayor’s office. The northern part has been consistently Democrat as well, ranging from Gary (extremely Democrat) through South Bend (also extremely Democrat).

True that Indianapolis has a second term Dem as Mayor, but it had nothing but Republicans for at least 32 years before 1999, and I believe that they only organized the City Council after the 2003 election.

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-indiana-so-pro-bush/272083/43 "2004-11-08T17:57:55Z")

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    - CNN has better maps–if you click on a state, it shows you the county-by-county breakdown:  
[http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/](http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/)  
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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-indiana-so-pro-bush/272083/44 "2004-11-08T19:09:08Z")

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Who cares if mayors are anything. State and local politics are a totally different animal. MA has had a series of republican governors, but did that phase any conservative talking heads from equating “Massachusetts” with “stark raving liberals”? Hell no. Now, you might say that’s just because they have a hard time holding on to multiple facts simultaneously in order to actually reason out an argument, but I say that internal politics and national politics are often pretty different beasts.

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