Six term Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) has been defeated in the Republican primary by State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, if reports at RealClearPolitics are correct. Who says the Tea Party is defunct?
Mourdock was backed by the Tea Party which viewed Lugar as being too willing to compromise with Democrats. In November Mourdock will run against Democrat Joe Donnelly who has three terms in the House of Representatives. Mourdock is expected to win.
The process of hollowing out the political middle in Congress continues.
