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...never in play for Democrats. They were therefore never part of any outreach effort - Obama's 50-state strategy didn't involve sending campaign staff to organize Alabama Bible colleges. Instead, the Obama camp focused its energy on a handful of battleground states with sizable Evangelical populations, including Colorado, Indiana and Michigan...
...party began building relationships with social conservatives in the western half of the state during the 2006 election cycle, Obama won 33% of the white Evangelical vote, a 12-point shift from 2004. The campaign's Evangelical outreach coordinator spent the last weeks of the race in tightly-contested Indiana, with impressive results - 30% of the state's white Evangelicals voted for Obama (a 14-point gain), and the Democrat split the Catholic vote with McCain (a 13-point gain...
...Indiana Governor: The Future of the Party Mitch Daniels was a somewhat tragic figure as President Bush's budget director, a policy-wonk, small-government conservative who found himself carrying water for a politics-driven, big-government budget buster. His aides almost had to strap him down to get him to sign a White House-directed letter supporting the corporate-welfare farm bill of 2002. But as Indiana's governor, he's gotten to do things his own way, privatizing roads, expanding health coverage, even supporting tax increases to get his state's fiscal house in order. His tough-love...
Instead, elections officials turned him away. The reason: he lacked a valid Indiana driver's license that is required by law here to vote. His Indiana license, he said, expired several years ago. The situation was complicated by the fact that the only ID he had on him was from out-of-state. Just before 7:00 a.m., he walked out the polling station, and was met by a pair of attorney's from nearby Chicago who volunteered to monitor polling stations for such issues. The man had come to the polling station with a hand full of telephone, electricity...
This is the kind of issues the Obama campaign is concerned about. Just last Friday, an Indiana appeals court dismissed Republican efforts to invalidate thousands of votes cast at satellite voting stations here in Democratic-leaning Lake County, which is just outside Chicago. Republicans have 30 days from last Friday's ruling to appeal the ruling, possibly before Indiana's Supreme Court. Jonathan Swain, an Obama campaign spokesman in Indiana, said roughly 1,000 attorneys from across the region had volunteered to monitor the polls for voter intimidation tactics. - By Steve Gray / Gary...