Comments on Advance Indiana™: Donnelly Looking Forward To Running Against Lugar, Not Mourdock

Early didn't have very strong grassroots suppo...

2011-05-09T16:29:31.381-05:00

Early didn't have very strong grassroots support, Paul. Many people who personally liked Rex didn't take him seriously as a gubernatorial candidate. That's why he lost. He thought he had won a lot of favors from people from being state party chairman, but those people weren't there to help him when he needed it. Dick Lugar didn't even help him and Rex had chaired his re-election campaign.

Vox, Lugar simply doesn't have much in the way...

2011-05-09T16:21:57.366-05:00

Vox, Lugar simply doesn't have much in the way of grass roots support. He may win the primary, but it will be the same way Goldsmith defeated Early in 1996, a bombardment of media.

The Dems beat Goldsmith in 1996 exactly because he didn't have the grass roots support within in his own party that an Early would have had.

I think the D's would rather run against Lugar, especially since Lugar may well have residency problems as he's been voting claiming someone else's residence for 30 plus years.

This Democrat would vote for Lugar over Donnelly, ...

2011-05-09T10:24:37.599-05:00

This Democrat would vote for Lugar over Donnelly, but under no circumstance would vote for Mourdock. I don't think Dems want to run against Lugar. I think he's preparing for a very destructive Republican primary from which Mourdock emerges broke and battered.