Obama's Speech in Wakarusa Indiana $2.4 Billion for Electric Cars

Obama announced $2.4 billion in competitive grants for electric carmaking at Monaco RV in Wakarusa, Indiana. Here is the list of grant recipients. He said he doesn't want to import hybrids, he wants to make them here.
Indiana is the second largest recipient of the grants. Obama emphasized the cars will be Made in the USA. He also made a pitch for education reform, saying we need to build engineers in America.
Obama also said the R&D tax credit is now permanent.
On the stimulus, he said there's a lot of misinformation. 1/3 of stimulus is tax relief. 1/3 emergency relief. 1/3 investments for short/long term. Obama has long had a three pronged approach to the economy: education, health reform, new energy. He touched on all of these in Elkhart county.
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Indiana news says Monaco RV went broke, sold to Navistar. Now Navistar wants to build electric trucks there. Navistar is getting a $39 million grant. Seven projects in Indiana will receive $400 million in grants:

Here's some good news. In the Q&A that just concluded with Chuck Todd, Obama says he prefers to have republicans on board with healthcare but it's getting done with or WITHOUT them.
RV workers talk about the decline in the RV market:

Obama in Terra Haute Indiana Sept. 6

Just heard on the news that although U.S. companies were more productive, they're not sharing that wealth with workers in terms of boosting salaries. 

Anyway, this event should be live streamed at cnn.com. I'll fish around for other streams day of. 

Join Barack Obama in Terre Haute for a discussion about his plans to jumpstart our economy, provide middle class tax relief, and get America moving in the right direction again.

DISCUSSION ON THE CHANGE WE NEED
WITH BARACK OBAMA
Wabash Valley Fairgrounds
4-H Arena
3901 US Hwy 41 S.
Terre Haute, IN
Saturday, September 6th
Doors Open: 11:00 a.m. EDT
Program Begins: 12:30 p.m. EDT

The event is free and open to the public -- however, seating is limited and tickets are required. Adults are limited to two tickets per person, and children under 16 may pick up one ticket.

Obama's Landslide?

Well, that's what I always contend. But it can never be taken for granted. Who thought Bush would win -- twice. Not I. 

Observer: But if you ignore the national numbers and instead consider individual state polls, a realigning landslide suddenly seems to be within Obama's reach. In state after state, he's performing far better than John Kerry did in 2004, and numerous Republican bastions are seemingly in play. Consider Indiana, which George W. Bush won by 21 points in 2004 and which lasted voted for a Democrat 44 years ago—and which Obama leads by one point in the most recent survey. Or North Carolina, which Bush carried by 12 points in '04 but where the latest poll has Obama within three. And so on. In North Dakota, the race is tied. In South Dakota, Obama trails by just four. Ditto for Alaska, perhaps the most Republican state in the union. He also leads in Montana and Colorado and in all but one recent survey in Virginia.
And the trend isn't just evident in red states. In states where Kerry eked out victories last time around, polls now give Obama sizable leads. Kerry nearly fumbled away Minnesota (a three-point nail-biter), but Obama has a 17-point advantage in the most recent poll. Wisconsin and New Hampshire were photo-finishes in '04, but Obama has opened a double-digit lead there. Plus, Obama is running ahead in states that Kerry barely lost, like Iowa (by an average of seven points), New Mexico and Nevada.
On top of all this, Obama is performing as well as any Democratic nominee is supposed to in the biggest blue states—California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts—and leads (in some cases substantially) in every recent swing state except Florida, where the average of recent polls gives McCain a three-point edge.