[Eric in the Ozarks]

This is really sad.
Lugar should have read the tea leaves and announced his retirement instead of leaving the senate like this.

[Defiant]

I wonder if Lugar will get his revenge in the lame duck session where Obama tries to destroy the country before he’s thrown out.

[Paleo Conservative]

I borrowed your comment.

[mdittmar]

where two dozen volunteers rang a bell each time a voter pledged to vote for the senator

"Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that."

[eclecticEel]

This is really sad. Lugar should have read the tea leaves and announced his retirement instead of leaving the senate like this.

Are you joking? His losing is a perfect warning for all the other republican's currently holding office. If he had just resigned the opportunity would have been lost; heck, the rest of the GOP would have celebrated his legacy and escorted him out of office like some sort of hero.