New Indiana (internal) poll: Clinton 44 - Trump 44

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29. I'm in the deep south and have no idea what

a number of acquaintances are really thinking. Agreeableness is the mode down here, and while most strong conservatives do chat about what they assume are rock-hard issues for everyone, there are always significant numbers who just smile and nod.

I think to assume most are motivated by gun rights and not a wide range of values important to them would be to make a very grave mistake. Study after study have shown that people vote their values, including those we don't bother to understand enough to realize they have any.

Also, to assume that all are the kind of hard-core conservatives we all shake our heads at, not to mention the extremists, would be a grave mistake. Big Money may have pushed the electorate right and mostly purged elective office of moderate conservatives, but they didn't manage actual brain transplants in the electorate.

One thing that most I've seen do agree on is the "danger" of the liberals taking over the Supreme Court. I'm only guessing but doubt that moderates who are keeping their mouths mostly shut would want a strongly ideologically court either direction, but I believe they'll go vote for a conservative court.