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...Across Indiana in the coming days, Clinton's campaign will dispatch an "economic solutions team" composed of elected and appointed officials charged with promoting her proposals to review the North American Free Trade Agreement and stem the erosion of manufacturing jobs that once formed the backbone of this state's economy. In a conference call this morning, the head of Clinton's Indiana campaign, Robbie Mook, said Obama supporters had in recent days sent mailers to voters here attacking the New York Senator for being too cozy with big business and soft on trade. In response, Mook said, "The assertion...
...polls surveying this state's electorate puts Obama slightly ahead of Clinton, 40% to 35%. He is expected to win Indianapolis, given its significant black population, and he may do well in the city's so-called collar counties, like Hamilton. After working hard to boost voter rolls at colleges and even high schools (17-year-olds can participate in Indiana's primaries, so long as they're 18 by the general election), Obama is also expected to win the state's college towns, as well as Indiana's Northwestern corner, partly because it falls within the media market...
...Despite Clinton's derision of Obama as an elitist in recent days, her Indiana strategy has been hinged on winning the support of the state's political establishment. That began in earnest with last fall's endorsement by Sen. Evan Bayh, the popular former governor. She also won the backing of Indiana's Democratic party chair, Dan Parker, who, like Bayh, is among the state's 12 superdelegates. Still, the race is considered so tight that Stephen J. Luecke, South Bend's mayor, began a recent interview with TIME by saying, "Whoever our nominee is, I'm going to fully...
...Clinton has an advantage amongst the state's power brokers, Obama appears to have a lead at the grassroots level, and his continued fund-raising advantage reflects that; in March, Indianans gave some $218,800 to Obama's campaign, and $79,600 to Clinton's. "Our goal is to create an army," says Troy Warner, 37, a South Bend electrician who over the last year has become a committed Obama activist, helping to recruit hundreds of volunteers and spread his candidate's message. In February 2007, Warner's wife prodded him to read Obama's book The Audacity of Hope...
...Warner's hometown, South Bend, has a historically unionized, largely white, working-class population that would appear to match the profile of Clinton's core. However, the fact that this city of 106,000 is home to two universities - chiefly Notre Dame - could help Obama. "No one knows how this thing is going to go," says Russ Hanson, political science professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington...