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Will the GOP lose Indiana?

By: DerKrieger (Diary)  |  September 19th, 2012 at 10:03 PM  | 

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The WSJ is reporting that Richard Mourdock is currently trailing Joe Donnelly by three points in a state that Dick Lugar regularly won with 65%+ of the vote. They’re attributing this in large part to Lugar’s refusal to endorse or campaign for Mourdock.

Is Dick Lugar really so much of a sore loser that he’d sacrifice the Senate seat to a Democrat? I hope the Senate leadership calls him on the carpet and tells him to stop pouting and help save the seat. If we lose this seat because of Dick Lugar’s pettiness he needs to be roundly denounced.

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  • earlgrey

    Dick lugar is proving why he deserved to lose the primary.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Jim Jeffords, Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist, and now Dick Lugar?

    This is shameful.

  • smagar

    Nate Silver at the NYT is giving the GOP a 20% chance of retaking the Senate. YIKES!

    • tnfriendofcoal101368

      Nate Silver admitted in his 9/18 blog and on twitter yesterday (to lots of hilarious lefty handwringing) that the state polls are pretty much useless and the only national polls with any consistency at all are Gallup and Rassmussen. The problem with the state polls is they are crazy biased towards Democrats (Jay Cost has a hilarious twitter feed going on that one); this was Nate Silver’s word for word THE.POLLS.MAKE.NO.SENSE. I actually think Sean Trende is right; it’s not intentional, it is as Sean said “phone answering bias”. The bias is in the “analyst” who doesn’t admit a D+13 sample needs to be adjusted (John Harewood said on twitter the NBC poll adjusted for voter sample ID is pretty much the same as Rassmussen). That is one thing to remember – the folks who do this as there business model (Gallup and Rassmussen) are adjusting the samples to voter id preference for accuracy; the guys who are news orgs by trade aren’t.

  • Matt8

    Lugar got darn little support from the GOP establishment. His behavior could be characterized as petty, but you can’t deny it’s understandable in light of that.

    • Melody Warbington

      No, it’s not understandable. Lugar had the support of the GOP for years, despite his lousy voting record in the last few. If he doesn’t want to be a Republican or support the Republican candidate any longer because his feelings are hurt, he should have gotten out a long time ago.

      Further, the NRSC maxed out its contributions to Lugar.

  • MiamiDave

    I think Lugar will come around. And, if he doesn’t, I am confident that the Senate Campaign Committee, and Karl Rove, are wholly committed to keeping this seat. I think we’ll get a victory in Indiana, up and down the ballot.

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