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Does anyone have a feel for why Obama did much better in Indiana than in Ohio, even before the Chicago suburbs reported? None of the articles are really mentioning it, even though Indiana and Ohio feel like very similar states to me. Similar minority populations, similar unemployment rates (Indiana: 4.6%, and Ohio: 5.3% -- okay, maybe that's a big difference). Even higher education levels are similar: 19% in Indiana and 21% in Ohio. Indiana has always struck me as being even more conservative than Ohio, but maybe I'm wrong on that count.
Obama had more momentum going into Ohio (after winning Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska, etc.), and it was before the story about Rev. Wright broke. So what am I missing? What key demographic did I forget? I can't find a breakdown of Indiana's population by age, but only 13.3% of Ohio's population is over age 65.
Meanwhile, I still have to order a Mother's Day gift for my mom. Eeek! I'm getting her the Jersey Boys soundtrack, but I am otherwise stumped. (I thought of getting her the Mary Tyler Moore show on DVD, which I thought she'd like, but my dad didn't think so.)
Edited to add: If anyone has any suggestions for fiction set in Pittsburgh, or in a small mill town, that would be great! I know that's kind of vague, but when I asked her about books, she just said that there's no books she's really looking forward to, and she's just going to get them from the library this summer. (Your standard beach reading, I guess.) I'm trying to think of books she might not think of, but would enjoy. (Of course, I thought the odds were good that at least one of my parents would like Family Romance, by John Lanchester -- nuns! WWII settings! -- but neither of them did. So this might not actually be possible.)
Obama had more momentum going into Ohio (after winning Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska, etc.), and it was before the story about Rev. Wright broke. So what am I missing? What key demographic did I forget? I can't find a breakdown of Indiana's population by age, but only 13.3% of Ohio's population is over age 65.
Meanwhile, I still have to order a Mother's Day gift for my mom. Eeek! I'm getting her the Jersey Boys soundtrack, but I am otherwise stumped. (I thought of getting her the Mary Tyler Moore show on DVD, which I thought she'd like, but my dad didn't think so.)
Edited to add: If anyone has any suggestions for fiction set in Pittsburgh, or in a small mill town, that would be great! I know that's kind of vague, but when I asked her about books, she just said that there's no books she's really looking forward to, and she's just going to get them from the library this summer. (Your standard beach reading, I guess.) I'm trying to think of books she might not think of, but would enjoy. (Of course, I thought the odds were good that at least one of my parents would like Family Romance, by John Lanchester -- nuns! WWII settings! -- but neither of them did. So this might not actually be possible.)
