Indy Star endorses Donnelly

[caraher]

They claim it isn't over the Mourdock's rape problem.

It was clear even before the latest controversy that Donnelly was better prepared than his Republican rival to represent the state and the nation effectively in the Senate. Donnelly has earned a strong endorsement by The Star in the three-way race, which includes Libertarian Andrew Horning.

I'd like to believe them.

Not that an Indy Star endorsement helped Vop Osili beat a self-confessed lawbreaker for Secretary of State... let's hope Senate is a different matter! Which reminds me... I need to replace my stolen Donnelly sign!

[Indydem]

1. I don't think Donnolly has a real chance.

The GOPites I know have all stepped up their efforts for him since the rape comment.

I've not seen one yard sign come down and I've seen several more go up, including 2 of the 4x8 signs.

The Indy Star is not well regarded, at least where I live. We'll see if it makes any matter.

[caraher]

3. No real chance?!!!

They've been neck-and-neck in the polls since May! Sure, it's almost all Mourdock signs where I am, too, but that's partly because the Tea Party astroturf machine has a bottomless sign budget. (Plus I'm in an extremely RW rural area.)

Mourdock was having a hard time with Republican (not counting the Teahadis) vote even before he put his foot in his mouth. Brian Howey writes,

In the September Howey/DePauw poll, he was only winning 71 percent of Republicans and only 60 percent of Lugar primary supporters were backing him. He continued to appeal to the Tea Party base instead of wooing in the Lugarites, and appealing to independent voters which survey after survey showed would determine the winner.

That Libertarian Andy Horning was getting 7 percent of the vote in our September survey and 8 percent in a Global Strategies poll last week shows that many of these Republicans didn't want to vote for Donnelly, but they didn't like Mourdock.

[MrYikes]

2. It is Mourdock that they are thinking about when going for Donnelly

this state is very pro-business, anything that would deter business is rejected, so having a Senator that would cause embarrassment to the state would lessen the state's ability to attract business. Mourdock has proven to be such an embarrassment.