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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:

  1. AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 1:09 PM

    36 years, time to go

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  2. AlexMay 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM

    There goes GOP destroying itself from within again.

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  3. AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM

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

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  4. AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 2:28 PM

    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!

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  5. AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 4:52 PM

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

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  6. AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 11:05 PM

    Obama is next

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