2040 Indiana Governor Election

The 2040 Indiana governor election was held was held on November 3rd, 2040. The Republicans nominated Attorney General Kenneth Moore with Mayor of Evansville Mark Meyer as his running mate. The Democrats nominated Indianapolis Mayor Jason Weaver with pro-choice activist Greg Dunn as his running mate. The Libertarians nominated Joe Canba with Bill Kelley as his running mate. Moore won 1,833,542 votes, Weaver won 1,103,974 votes, and Canba won 39,848 votes. In all 2,977,364 votes were cast.

## Primaries

#### Republican Party Primary

The candidates for the Republican primary were Indiana Attorney General Kenneth Moore and Columbus, Indiana Mayor Tom Spencer. Moore campaigned on economic issues and promised to cut taxes. Spencer focused more on social issues and campaigned on his opposition to abortion. Spencer also promised to increase funding for police. Moore won the primary with 249,598 votes to Spencer's 153,259 votes. Moore won mainly due to his promise to cut taxes and Indiana Republican voters top issue was the economy not social issues. Moore won with 62% of the vote to Spencer's 38%.

#### Democratic Party Primary

The candidates for the Democratic Party primary were Indianapolis mayor Jason Weaver and Lake county Commissioner Ed Hart. Weaver campaigned on increasing funding for education, increasing teacher salaries, and fixing roads and bridges. Hart was a little more liberal than Weaver was and he campaigned on building clean energy plants, increasing teacher salaries, and increasing taxes on the wealthy. Weaver won the primary with 141,672 votes to Hart's 101,902 votes. Weaver won mainly due to him being more moderate than Hart and he focused more on economic issues, which were more important to voters. Weaver won 58.2% of the vote. Hart won 41.8% of the vote.

#### Libertarian Party Primary

The candidates for the Libertarian Party primary were gun rights and pro-life activist Joe Canba and small government activist Greg Hall. Canba ran a more right-wing campaign emphasizing gun rights and pro-life ideas a lot on the campaign trail. Greg Hall made his whole campaign about reducing government interference in the economy and healthcare. Canba won the nomination with 4,459 votes to Halls 3,786 votes. Canba won thanks to him appealing to more right-wing voters and a lot of voters thought that Hall had nothing else to offer than just reducing government interference. Canba won 54.1% of the vote to Hall's 45.9% of the vote.

## General Election

#### Main Issues in the 2040 Indiana Governor Election

##### Taxes

Taxes was the most important issues in this election. Moore wanted to give tax cuts to corporations, the middle class, and the rich. Moore campaigned mostly on taxes. Weaver campaigned on higher taxes for the rich and mantaining the other taxes. Canba wanted to maintain the current taxes.

##### Infrastructure

Infrastructure was the second main issue in this campaign (behind taxes). Moore supported having private corporations to fix roads and bridges. Weaver supported the state governemnt funding infrastructure projects and campaigned heavily on that. Canba campaigned that the government should not interfere with infrastructure.

##### Gun Rights

Moore promised he would protect gun rights and said the people had the right to bear arms. Weaver campaigned frequently in the bigger cities in support of common sense gun control and released statements saying he wasn't going to take law-abiding citizens guns. Canba promised to protect the 2nd amendment and attacked Weaver saying he was going to take people's guns away.

#### General Election

Moore campaigned the most in swing counties and sometimes in rural areas to shore up support. Moore frequently brought up his plan to cut taxes and his support of gun rights. Weaver campaigned in swing counties and big cities. Weaver needed to win big with liberals and needed to barely win swing voters to win this election. So Weaver campaigned in big cities like Indianapolis and Gary to shore up liberal support. Weaver also campaigned in swing counties to win over those voters. Canba campaigned mainly in rural areas usually talking about his support of gun rights and reducing government interference.

#### Polling

2040 Indiana Governor Election
 Fivethirtyeight
 The Cook Political Report

## Results

Kenneth Moore won the election taking 61.6% of the vote, Jason Weaver won 37.1% of the vote, and Joe Canba won 1.3% of the vote. Moore did better than the polls showed, in some cases Moore did 5% better than the polls showed. Canba also did better than polls showed, but not a lot better. Moore won all the rural areas and most swing counties, while Weaver won one swing counties and the two big city counties. Canba did well in rural counties, though he didn't win any counties. Turnout was 62.7% in this election.