Hostettler also has an A from the NRA.
As to who is more ‘electable’, the last poll I saw has Hostettler well ahead of Stutzman. Coats of course has the lead but is a RINO
“As to who is more ‘electable’, the last poll I saw has Hostettler well ahead of Stutzman.”
Looks like Coats is ahead:
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/29/in-senate-race-coats-claims-poll-position/?test=latestnews
UPDATE: The most surprising single piece of data in the poll was Coats strong standing among likely voters who “identify with the Tea Party movement”. In that group...Coats got 30%...Stutzman 23%...Hostettler 21%...Undecided 11%...Bates 9% and Behney 4%.
Why is that surprising? Coats did not win a single straw poll at any of the debates sponsored by Tea Party groups. Organizers have repeatedly told me that of the five Republican candidates...the Tea Party favorites are Stutzman, Behney and Bates.
In fact, Behney is a Tea Party organizer himself. Stutzman has courted the Tea Party vote and has won four Tea Party debate straw polls. The one candidate who has seemed to struggle for support among Tea Party activists is Coats.
Yet, this polls suggests Coats may have mended fences with Tea Partiers on issues such as Coats’ voting for a semi-automatic weapons ban while a Senator in the 1990’s...and Coats work as a DC lobbyist.
Tea Partiers may have grown pragmatic here in the waning days of the primary campaign...getting behind Coats because of his base of support among the regulars of the Indiana Republican Party. But if that’s true...it’s the first time this reporter has heard it.