Bloomington is one of a few strong Democratic strongholds in Indiana. It's not a big town, just 50,000 votes were cast in Monroe county in 2004, but it's one of two counties where Dems can reliably pull out a seven-to-ten point margin.
The Obama people are trying to run up a much larger margin from Bloomington this year. When we voted on Saturday more than a third of the registered voters in Monroe county had already voted.
Nobody in the Obama offices will give a number they're looking for from Bloomington and Monroe. I think the floor is a net 10,000 votes for Obama, and it could go as high as 25,000.
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