Obama losing Indiana voters

LA Times:

Since her husband lost his job at the RV factory, Lorena Rodriguez has been holding tag sales on the dry lawn outside their modest ranch house on the edge of town. As she hawked her four children's outgrown clothing and bicycles on a recent Friday afternoon, Rodriguez said the family had to turn to food stamps briefly to get by. And even though her husband, Daniel, recently found work, they still struggle to pay the bills.

"It's still pretty tough," said the 28-year-old.

All this has deeply colored her opinion of President Obama, whom she supported in 2008.

"He promised so many things. He hasn't done anything," said Rodriguez, an independent voter who said she would not side with Obama in 2012. "We had thought he would really help us, but we haven't seen much from him."

Among the states that supported Obama in 2008, Indiana was one of the least likely — he was the first Democratic nominee to win the state in 44 years, defeating Republican John McCain by less than 1 percentage point. Strategists in both parties say Indiana is the state he is least likely to hold on to in 2012, largely because of shifts in sentiment by working-class voters like Rodriguez.

Dissatisfaction among those voters, most notably women, could also hamper Obama's efforts in other vital states in the Midwest. Polling in recent months shows that working-class Americans — already skeptical of the president — have grown increasingly hostile to him, and enthusiasm among women is also waning.

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Obama's energy prices are designed to kill the RV business through higher prices for fuel.  They have certainly done that.  Indiana is home to most of the recreation vehicle manufacturing jobs, or what is left of them after Obama energy policies decimated the business.  This sounds like a Hispanic vote he will not get in 2012.