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Who will be president? This Indiana county could hold the answer
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To find out who will win the White House, you likely just need to head to Vigo County.
Home to Terre Haute, Indiana State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, voters here have correctly predicted the president in every election since 1888, with just three exceptions.
It’s known as a bellwether county — one of only a handful in the United States that have reliably predicted the next president.
In the 2020 presidential election, Vigo County went for Trump.
The country though, elected Joe Biden as president.
That was only the third time since 1888 that voters in Vigo County picked the candidate who lost. The other elections were in 1908 (William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan) and 1952 (Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson II).
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/politics/elections/decision-2024/2024-presidential-election-vice-former-president-donald-trump-kamala-harris-vigo-county-bellweather-indiana-terre-haute-diner-predict-change-vote/531-c353150a-c4ba-45d3-b609-27641e173cfe