So JRIII, any word on whether Lugar might resign and let Daniels appoint Mourdoch to his seat before the general election. Somehow I think Lugar is really pissed and won't rollover for the sake of party.

I believe Sen Lugar will be under a lot of pressure from Indiana Republican office holders to resign his Senate seat after September 1. That resignation would allow Gov Daniels (R-IN) to appoint Richard Mourdock (or anyone else) Senator for the remainder of the 2nd Session of Congress (and more importantly allow Mourdock to be addressed as Sen Mourdock prior to the November election). Should Mourdock win the general election, such an appointment would also move Mourdock ahead of any other freshman senators in seniority. That will be the attempted selling point made to Lugar.

There appears to be a lot of bad feelings between Lugar and Mourdock. Here's hoping they continue for another 6 months.
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It would delight me to no end if he doesn't. It would have been better for him to resign prior to the general election. That way Mourdock could have had an incumbent advantage which would have made his election in November more probable.
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[Sen Richard] Lugar told conservative Indiana blogger Abdul Hakim-Shabazz in an interview posted Monday that he would not actively support Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock on the campaign trail.
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Polls have shown a surprisingly close race for what would have been a safe Republican seat had Lugar won re-election.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/1 ... 91705.html

Crossroads just spent $1 million on one week's worth of campaign ads for Murdock. Rumor has it his campaign is imploding. Romney has very long burning coattails.

Mourdock very effectively labeled himself a right wing alternative to Sen Lugar during the Republican primary. Some Indiana Republican and independent voters haven't forgotten that and are supporting Donnelly as the moderate they prefer. Mourdock has nowhere near the support Rmoney enjoys in Indiana.

Indiana may turn purple and possibly even twinkle blue this year.

Congressional candidates need to hammer the 47% comments home. Romney is losing in his home state of MI where his dad was governor. If Obama thought he could pick up a few reps, I would encourage the DNC to pour money into those campaigns.

It features a clip of Mourdock from a well-known MSNBC interview in 2011 during which he said that "bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view." The clip from that interview in the DSCC ad features Mourdock saying, "to me, the highlight of politics frankly is to inflict my opinion on someone else."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/sen ... as-radical

Interesting. The DNC is running this same ad in our state congressional races.

10/15/2012 -- Indiana regulates polling strictly, so we've been starved for information here. The best guess is that Mourdock is ahead, but that it is still a close race.

This Real Clear Politics statement caught my attention. I am interested in Loh's comment regarding it.

Open at your own risk Loh.

Mourdock, who appeared to choke back tears as he spoke, said the only exception he could support was if the mother’s life was in danger.

“Life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something God intended to happen,” Mourdock said, his voice thick with emotion.

And by 10:30 p.m., Romney’s campaign was rejecting the words, if not the candidate.
“Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock’s comments, and they do not reflect his views,” said Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney’s campaign.

Nothing really definitive there. Seems to favor Mourdock, and it wouldn't surprise me for that assclown to win and become perhaps the worst Senator in the nation, but two of those polls are Rasmussen.

The implication from him is that it is God's Will that a girl gets raped. A woman should feel blessed to have been raped.
These people are some of the lowest scum on the Earth.

Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday reiterated its support for Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock (R), saying it will not ask him to pull down an ad featuring the GOP presidential nominee.

Mourdock stirred controversy Tuesday when he said pregnancies resulting from rape can be "something God intended." Romney had already cut the ad for Mourdock, who's in a tough race. It was a rare move for the GOP nominee, who's not gotten involved in many Senate contests.

A Romney official told The Hill the campaign would not ask for the ad, which began airing on Tuesday, to come down.