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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Tea Party Favorite Topples Lugar, Indiana’s 6-term Senator

Tea-party-backed candidate Richard Mourdock defeated longtime<$> Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana in Tuesday’s GOP primary, ending the career of one of the chamber’s two senior Republicans and giving Democrats a better chance at capturing the seat in November.

The race was widely seen as a key test of tea party anger against incumbents two years after that same sentiment disrupted a number of Republican races and powered insurgent candidates to wins across the country.

Already, a challenger in Utah said the race is a model for his bid to unseat Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, another veteran senator under fire for his record of trying to work with Democrats in the Senate.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

36 years, time to go

Alex said...

There goes GOP destroying itself from within again.

Anonymous said...

The GOP is purging itself of Rino's...The Tea Party does it again!!!

Anonymous said...

36 years and proud of the job he's done. when he ought to be hanging his head in shame for what he's done to future generations! glad to see this rino is finally extinct!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for giving the dems another senate seat keep up the good work

Anonymous said...

Obama is next