Barack Obama in 2008 won Indiana by about 30,000 votes, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate won in the state since LBJ in the 1964 wipe-out election. Now we find the state swinging back to the GOP and to conservative positions:

Following his vote for the national health care plan, Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth’s support remains stuck in the low 30s, while two of his Republican opponents now earn 50% or more of the vote in Indiana’s U.S. Senate race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Indiana finds that 65% favor repeal of the recently passed health care law. Just 29% in the state oppose repeal. Those findings include 56% who strongly favor repeal versus 21% who strongly oppose it.

Support for Dan Coats is up by five points from last month and he now leads Ellsworth 54 to 39 percent. It is, as we’ve observed, only with the help of Obama and the Democratic leadership that Evan Bayh, a popular senator and frequent VP contender, would flee the Senate, that the Republicans would surge to a double-digit lead, and that a signature piece of legislation would incur the ire of a huge majority of Hoosier voters.