Indiana 3rd-Fastest Growing, 3rd-Most Free State in USA

Indiana's economy grew at 4.6% in 2010, the third-fastest growing state in the union:

A new report says that Indiana’s economic growth is third only to North Dakota and New York. The Bureau of Economic Analysis says the Indiana GDP grew at 4.6% in 2010.

Also, the Mercatus Center rates Indiana as the third-most free state in the United States:

#3 Overall
#13 Economic
#4 Personal

Consider for a moment that Tim Pawlenty wants, under his economic plan, to have the American economy grow at 5% a year.

Obama and company have pooh-poohed this as impossible. Indiana came pretty close to that goal in 2010, even as the rest of the country remained mired in economic hard times.

If he were still in the presidential running, this would be quite a feather in Mitch Daniels' campaign cap (and it still could be, if he ends up on the Republican ticket as a vice presidential nominee).

5% growth, or something close to it, can be done. Indiana and a few other states prove that. The question is why Obama continues to think it's not possible.