November 4 at 6:49PM
Obama Leads Early Indiana Returns… And That's Without Mellencamp
MSNBC has some early poll returns from Indiana, and Barack Obama is slightly ahead. Perhaps more heartening for the Illinois Senator is that John Mellencamp's hometown of Bloomington hasn't even released their results yet.
Presumably Mellencamp has thousands of relatives scattered in other parts of the state. If there's any other explanation, McCain should probably deliver his concession speech now and make a beeline for the Early Bird Special.
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The Mellencamp thing isn't a joke, at least in Seymour (where he comes from). My maternal grandfather's family comes from there, and we are in fact distant relatives of John Cougar Mellencamp.
I'm from Indiana and it will be so wonderful if Barack wins here!
Indiana hasn't voted Democratic for President since 1964.
WooHoo! It will be over if Obama carries Indiana.
At the moment, that's not only without Mellencamp–it's without Gary and Indianapolis. The rest of the state is the sort of place that someone like Palin might think of as "real America." And they're voting for Obama?
Seriously, if McC doesn't win Indiana, he's toast.