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Why Do People In Indiana Hate Mike Pence? (Original Post) thomhartmann Aug 2016 OP
Despicable! Gotta watch out for those "Good Christians!" Dustlawyer Aug 2016 #1
Pence was not guaranteed re-election here. aaaaaa5a Aug 2016 #2
I am a born and raised Hoosier Magleetis Aug 2016 #3
Cons Keep Voting for Republicans Leith Aug 2016 #4

aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
2. Pence was not guaranteed re-election here.
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:06 AM
Aug 2016


Pence tried to push forward legal discrimination policies against the LBGT community. It hurt the state publicly and monetarily. Stores in downtown Indianapolis had to put stickers on their windows stating they would NOT discriminate despite what the law told them they could do. It was a mess. It badly hurt the image of our community. Oh, it was also just plain wrong.


Mike Pence is not popular here. In what is a conservative state, he was only a 50/50 bet for re-election. This is why he jumped on the Trump ticket. It was better for his political career to drop out of the Governors race than stay in and risk losing.


Barack Obama won Indiana in 2008. Despite not campaigning here at all in 2012, he was not blown out by any means. Indiana has put 1 conservative democratic Senator into the Senate. And this year with Bayh on the ticket, its 50/50 that Indiana could actually have 2 Democratic senators in the USA Senate in 2017.

No. Indiana is not Massachusetts or California. But its not quite as conservative as its national reputation suggests.

For 2016, Hillary Clinton opened her first campaign office here this week. This shows, she will at least give the state a shot. That is a good sign for chances in November.
 

Magleetis

(1,260 posts)
3. I am a born and raised Hoosier
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:46 AM
Aug 2016

However, I am very happy to be gone from that backwards state. Why do the people of Indiana continue to elect him and others like him? He represents the majority of Hoosiers.

Leith

(7,813 posts)
4. Cons Keep Voting for Republicans
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 01:49 PM
Aug 2016

Then they get pissed off when everything goes to shit. They should get a clue, but they just blame liberals for all their problems.

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