November 12, 2012

The Real Lesson of the Election

By Jack Cashill
Also by Jack Cashill today: The Myth of the Missing Three Million Republicans Each year I drive across the eastern half of the country twice, including the states of Ohio and Indiana.  Without benefit of signage it would be hard to tell them apart.  Each has an industrial base in the north and a heartland dedicated largely to agriculture.  Each state is 86 percent white and has a Republican governor.  Over the last 25 years, I think I have stopped at every McDonald's on 1-70 and 1-71, and the service is uniformly upbeat and amiable along the whole route. In 2008 both states voted for Barack Obama for president, Ohio by four percent, Indiana by one percent.  In 2012, Ohio voted for Obama by a two percent margin, but Indiana voted for Romney by a 10.5 percent differential.  Some 250,000 fewer Hoosiers voted for Obama in 2012 than in 2008, and Romney topped McCain's total by nearly 70,000 votes.  Despite the filter of a hopelessly corrupt media, huge...(Read Full Article)