Could Indiana's new hate law provide an opening for a Democratic Senate pick-up?

[villager]

Just some out loud wondering. With the already surprising extent of the backlash to Indiana's just-signed new hate-and-discrimination law, I wonder if it will backfire to the extent that a Democratic candidate could pick up the soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat?

To be sure, this candidate will not be able to run as a "faux Republican" in this scenario, but rather, stand firmly "against hate, to show America that Indiana is better than this," etc.

Would be great if there was some additional political cost to the GOP for this, in addition to the fiduciary ones already, justifiably, piling up on the Hoosier State.

[upaloopa]

1. You would have to assume that the voters who

elected these idiots somehow get an infusion of common sense.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, these are the damn fools they vote in, they must really like them and their policies.

Ugh! So glad to be nowhere near that state, keeping it on my flyover state list.

[villager]

3. It's a huge assumption, but I'm wondering there'd be enough in the middle, also hurt...

...in the pocketbook, to possibly make a difference.

[arcane1]

4. If nothing else, any person running for office there needs to be asked their opinion on it

[villager]

5. Certainly Pence's signature has now guaranteed this to be part of future campaigns there

So it will be interesting to see if any particular election is viewed as a "referendum" on it...

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Doubt It Hoosiers Want LGBT People Deported From Their State Most Likely

They voted for all these bigots and Indiana seems to be controlled by GOP in large margins in their legislature.

[villager]

7. You may be right. We will find out in the months ahead if "pocketbook persuasion" gets to

...any of them, or if they just start doubling down on the hate.

[TheMastersNemesis]

8. Hoosiers Seem To Be More Backward Than Mississippi.

[villager]

9. It could be that the crippling economic backlash will just shake more of the few remaining smart

...ones loose, and exacerbate the problem.

[arcane1]

10. Or they'll blame their new poverty on "libruls" and join militias

This reply started as a joke but now that I'm done with it, it doesn't seem funny anymore.

[villager]

11. It's not funny at all. But the fallout seems to be coming faster, and more furiously...

...that I think they reckoned on.