WOW. Indiana Senate race moves to ‘tossup’

[cali]

A bipartisan survey released Thursday — as well as a handful of Democratic internal polls — show that the Indiana Senate race between state Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) and Rep. Joe Donnelly (D) is very close and, as a result, we are moving the contest from “lean Republican” to “tossup.”

A Howey Politics Indiana/DePauw poll released Tuesday shows the race is even — with Donnelly at 40 percent and Mourdock at 38 percent. (The Howey survey was conducted by pollsters who know Indiana well — Democratic pollster Fred Yang and Republican pollster Christine Matthews.) Recent Democratic polls from Donnelly’s campaign and a super PAC supporting him tell a similar story.

Meanwhile, Republicans haven’t leaked polls in response to the Democratic releases, suggesting that what they are seeing may not be all that different from what Democrats are touting.



<snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/09/27/indiana-senate-race-moves-to-tossup/

[Ellipsis]

1. Coooooool!

[cthulu2016]

2. Donnelly is claiming the mantle of Lugar

It's a funny campaign. Tea-party style loon Mourdock apparantly continued criticizing Lugar after the primary and Donnelly took up Lugar's defense as an American hero and what's best about Indiana.

[dhill926]

4. yea, well....

Indiana is fucked up. Lived there for 18 years. Politics be totally unpredictable. And never dull...

Hope the R goes down hard....

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Wow! Arizona and now Indiana?

Holy cow! When the R's screw up, they do a damned good job of it. I think people are so sick of the right wing teaklanning crazies that We the People are rebelling. And if the Democrats don't start acting like Democrats again, they'll see a return to 2010 in 2014.

[aquart]

5. Social Security is the third rail of American politics. So is Medicare.

Idiots completely forgot that.