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Dick Lugar's Indiana Loss Is a Win for Democrats
ABC ^ | 5/9/12 | Chris Good

Posted on 05/09/2012 9:21:11 AM PDT by central_va

In a tough year for Senate campaigns, Democrats will take everything they can get.

This year's map of Senate races heavily favors the GOP, which will defend only 10 seats to Democrats' 23. Six Democratic incumbents have declined to run, and Democrats will have to defend seats in 11 competitive races, while Republicans will only defend in five.

All of which makes Sen. Dick Lugar's loss welcome news for Democrats, who seem to have figured all along that their candidate, Blue Dog Rep. Joe Donnelly, would fare better against Tea Party-backed, Saran Palin-endorsed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock in November.

Now that Mourdock has defeated the six-term senator, Democrats might have a chance at winning a seat they had otherwise written off.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: dcresident; democrats; donnelly; elections; in2012; indiana; liberalidiot; lugar; mourdock; newstart; nwo; rinohunt; teaparty
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To: central_va

ABC go pound salt and stick it up your ..............

Typical leftwing bloviating.


21 posted on 05/09/2012 9:38:10 AM PDT by ZULU (Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam.)
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To: central_va

Once the lame-stream believes something, it tries to convince everyone else to join them in their delusion. Have some TEA lame-stream. TEA tastes better than kool-aid. The vote is coming lame-stream. Americans are here and Americans are coming to vote. Remember well, this yesterday. The future will come from yesterday, and the lame-stream will have seen shock and awe by the vote. I’ll be LOL.


22 posted on 05/09/2012 9:38:20 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: zaxtres
Mitch needs to go.

STOP! Mitch is a great governor. Don't get worked up about his being in Lugar's ads. He's going to be replaced by Pence in the fall anyway. But he has done very well in IN as our governor. IN has a budget surplus and property taxes were recently fixed (lowered for most). I can't speak to his motives for supporting Lugar. But I suspect it was political and not necessarily personal.

23 posted on 05/09/2012 9:39:01 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (With regards to the GOP: I am prodisestablishmentarianistic!)
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To: Tenacious 1
Where does the MSM get off calling him a "Blue Dog Demograt"?

Relative to the raving Marxists in the MSM, he IS a Blue Dog!

24 posted on 05/09/2012 9:40:58 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: zaxtres

Thats the way politics work. Incumbents ALWAYS endorse incumbents from their own party in primary fights. Always. Find one exception. Even Sarah Palin (although not an incumbent) endorsed John McCain in his Senate race.


25 posted on 05/09/2012 9:41:03 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah. That is the way I see it.
The ‘Pubbies MIGHT get to keep the seat AND we get to put a shot into the bow of the RINOs.
And if worse, comes to worse, we replace a Liberal ‘Pubbie with a Liberal Democrat and no real change in the way Senate votes go.


26 posted on 05/09/2012 9:43:34 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: central_va

This is more like “p*ssing into the wind” and consequently this urnal-ist has p*ssed all over himself.


27 posted on 05/09/2012 9:51:41 AM PDT by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: PapaBear3625

I thought Obammy ate all the Blue Dogs and in his word, they were delicious...


28 posted on 05/09/2012 9:53:33 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: central_va
Blue Dog Rep. Joe Donnelly, would fare better against Tea Party-backed, Saran Palin-endorsed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock in November.

Mourdock is not Christine O'Donnell. He will beat the pants off Donnelly. It won't even be close.

29 posted on 05/09/2012 9:54:00 AM PDT by montag813
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To: central_va
Dick Lugar's loss is another nail in the LSM. I heard or read at least half a dozen pro-Lugar national news stories and columns since last week.

Lugar's been losing it for years.

At least he's taking the high road so far on supporting his Tea Party successor, at least according to a news story this morning.

30 posted on 05/09/2012 9:56:14 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Venturer

Sends a message to Mittster as well, we can make you, or we can break you, your choice.


31 posted on 05/09/2012 9:58:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Tenacious 1
I can't speak to his motives for supporting Lugar.

Mitch got his start in politics working for Lugar. That's why. Note that Mitch--unlike Lugar--was very complimentary of Mourdock. Mitch said he'd support Mourdock if he won the primary. I have no reason to disbelieve him.

32 posted on 05/09/2012 9:58:37 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: central_va

This guy needs to get out more. The chance of Mourdock losing in Nov. is as about the same as Romney winning a straw vote here on FR.


33 posted on 05/09/2012 10:06:50 AM PDT by redangus
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To: Tenacious 1

Nope it was totally personal. Lugar gave him his start in politics, it was loyalty to a mentor pure and simple. He has already appeared with Mourdock today.


34 posted on 05/09/2012 10:09:52 AM PDT by redangus
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To: Tenacious 1

I’m absolutely willing to give Daniels a pass on that one, too. I think Mitch knew it wouldn’t make a spit bit of difference anyway.


35 posted on 05/09/2012 10:12:22 AM PDT by nodumbblonde ("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
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To: central_va

Rats won’t win the Senate rate or he Presidential race is Indiana. I bet Romney and Mourdock win by more than 10 pts. Obama will lose NC as well. Obama will lose VA and FL.


36 posted on 05/09/2012 10:14:36 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: central_va
Dick Lugar's Indiana Loss Is a Win for Democrats

That is such an absurd statement, I had to click on it to read the article, if only for a few good laughs out loud.

If I ever get a job writing titles for articles, I'm going to remember this trick.

37 posted on 05/09/2012 10:18:38 AM PDT by GBA (Isaiah 9:10)
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To: central_va; hoosiermama
Here's a post with similar sentiments from IN FReeper hoosiermama on another Dick Lugar thread:

Am predicting a humongous “R” win in Indiana in the fall. Hoosiers are pissed. First: BO won by having out of state students register and vote here. Second: the discovery of signature fraud in placing BO on the ballot. Third: the enlightenment that Lugar hadn't even been residing in the state.

38 posted on 05/09/2012 10:27:03 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Venturer

I see that John Kerry was lamenting Lugar’s loss.That speaks volumes about how RINO’ed up Lugar was.


39 posted on 05/09/2012 10:30:35 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: central_va

Mr. Good is simply repeating the Democratic Party line. It was the Party line well before yesterday’s election.


40 posted on 05/09/2012 10:33:53 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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