Earlier in the semester I posted an article about long-time incumbent Dick Lugar on Indiana so I found it very interesting that one of the tactics that his campaign is using in his primary election is that without Lugar, the Republicans will lose the seat and lose control of the Senate. I find it interesting in the use of the median voter theorem to explain to constituents that Lugar is the only hope against Joe Donnelly's more moderate voting history and that it's a strategic vote for the party to vote for Lugar in the primary.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-lugar-gop-cant-get-senate-majority-without-him-20120507,0,7443037.story
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Just another sign of how polarized we have become in recent history. Lugar was viewed as a potential member of the Obama cabinet 2008 and now he faces the end of his career in a Republican Indiana campaign. It also is a huge request to expect that the average voter in Indiana will vote sophisticated enough to vote for Lugar because he will "win," over a Democratic candidate.
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