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Monday, November 26, 2007
Indiana could turn blue because of the war, economy and immigration
Disillusioned with President Bush’s handling of the war, the economy and immigration, nearly half of likely voters in Indiana appear poised to buck forty years of tradition and vote for a Democratic presidential ticket — if it includes Sen. Evan Bayh (pictured), according to a new poll, the Indianapolis Star reports.
The poll of 600 Hoosiers — by the Indianapolis Star and WTHR — revealed a growing sense of pessimism, with nearly three-quarters saying the nation is headed in the wrong direction and 28 percent approving of George W. Bush’s performance as president.
More than two-thirds of state residents disapprove of the president’s handling of the situation in Iraq, the economy, the federal budget and immigration policy, the article says.
President Bush supported an immigration bill that would have increased border security and given many illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. The bill failed in the Senate earlier this year.
The last Democrat to win Indiana was Lyndon B. Johnson, who pulled about 56 percent of the vote in the 1964 race with Barry Goldwater.
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Pat Buchanan: America “on a path to national suicide”
GOP political pundit Pat Buchanan’s latest book declares that the United States is headed to “national suicide” and “decomposing,” according to excerpts printed on the Drudge Report Web site.
Among the problems leading to this demise, according to Buchanan: the U.S. Army is too small to meet global commitments, the dollar has shrunk to historic lows, and “the greatest invasion in history, from the Third World, is swamping the ethno-cultural core of the country, leading to Balkanization and the loss of the Southwest to Mexico.”
Another nugget from the book: “The greatest threat to U.S. sovereignty and independence is the scheme of a global elite to erase America’s borders and merge the USA, Mexico and Canada into a North American Union.”
Buchanan waged two failed presidential bids in 1992 and 2000 in which fighting illegal immigration was a central theme.
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