Hillary is running ads in Indiana!

[pbrower2a]

Barack Obama largely avoided Indiana in 2012. He might have hurt the Senate candidate for the Democratic Party, someone running what looked as if it could be a tough race.  Obama was more intent on getting a Senate ally than winning the 11 electoral votes of Indiana

If she can at all help the Democratic nominee for Senate or win a House seat or two  in Indiana, then Hillary Clinton will run ads in Indiana.

In a way, Indiana does swing: Democrats typically win when they are losing Indiana by 12% or less, but otherwise lose. If Indiana is even on the fringe of competitiveness, then the Democratic nominee for President is winning nationally. Indiana is a D win around the 370th to 400th electoral vote for a Democrat. If she has Indiana in range, then she has won Ohio, which ranges from about the 280th  to the 320th electoral vote for a Democrat. 

[pbrower2a]

This is silly. We know the people of Indiana LOVE Trump and HATE Hillary.

It's a rural-urban divide. Rural Hoosiers love Trump and despise just about any Democrat. Urban Hoosiers see through Donald Trump and tolerate Hillary Clinton.

Indiana is much like Illinois without Cook and Lake Counties in its distribution of liberals and conservatives. What passes as fairly-large cities (Rockford, Peoria, Springfield, and the Illinois half of the Quad Cities) add up to roughly Indianapolis;   both states have their liberal college towns like Bloomington (either state), Champaign, or West Lafayette; both  states have urban wrecks of industrial suburbs essentially as overflows from neighboring states (East St. Louis, Gary-Hammond). Otherwise, Indiana and "Southern Illinois" are basically much the same.