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The basics of it are I'm very, very nervous about the election. With all the fraud I'm hearing being perpetrated by the repukes, and other garbage going on to try and squeeze Rimney in there, I guess I'm not thinking before I speak as much as I really should. I just couldn't stand going back to the Bu$h years, and while this is only one state that COULD go to Mitty, it is still nerve wracking. Scares me to think about. I work, but I'm disabled, and I'm nearly always broke. That's no reason to paint everyone from Indiana as dumb, because it may go to Mittens.
So really...I apologize. 
Indiana showed a flash of real progressivism in 2008. Then quickly went backwards in 2010 flooding the state legislature with Tea Party Republicans whom wasted no time in curtailing unions, making us a "right-to-work" state, and re-igniting the culture wars by attempting to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. 
I didn't expect a repeat of 2008, sadly, but hopefully we'll AT LEAST get Donnelly elected to the Senate.
And I'm sorry for the OP. It was early in the night and I was worried, so the news of Romney winning Indiana was depressing.
I live in a solid Blue state. I was out with friends at a bar tonight watching the election coverage (the bar was playing MSNBC) - and I had a moment of real gratitude for my State and the realization that it's easy to take for granted that most people around me have the same political beliefs. I thought about folks on DU who live in Red states and are surrounded by Republicans at work and in public and probably can't freely talk about their political beliefs
Kudos to you LisaLynne and everyone else on DU who lives in a Red state and fights the good fight.
And not to make you jealous or anything, but there was partying in the streets here over the combination of an Obama win AND marriage equality AND marijuana legalization was passed. 
