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Democrat J.D. Ford pulled off a big upset Tuesday, unseating state Sen. Mike Delph, a Republican who has served the district since 2005. With two-thirds of precincts reporting, Ford held a 57 percent to 43 percent lead over Delph. “I wanted District 29 to be heard and with our win tonight, they will be,” Ford told fellow Democratic supporters Tuesday night. “Now you have a voice in the Indiana General Assembly.” Ford is thought to be Indiana’s first openly gay state lawmaker. “Ladies and gentleman, we just made history and no one can take that from us,” Ford said. It...

Indiana state Sen. Mike Delph (R), the man some conservative activists in the state are courting to primary Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) in 2012, says he already has the attention of national Republicans. In an interview, Delph told The Ballot Box that his very public flirtation with a potential run against Lugar in a Republican primary has attracted the notice of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, although he hasn't exactly heard from the committee just yet. "I've already been told the NRSC is Googling my name," said Delph, who claimed that a local Indiana blogger told him he had tracked...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - As many as 85,000 illegal immigrants live in Indiana. Arizona's new law makes it a crime to live in the U.S. illegally, directing police to verify folks legal status. One Indiana Senator said he'll do the same in the Hoosier state if the White House won't. But one local family disagrees, saying they've lived through tough U.S. laws to get from Mexico to Terre Haute. "It took us a long process to get him legal here in the United States," said Patty Pineda of her husband Eduardo. Patty and Eduardo met when they both worked...