IN-Sen: Coats retiring

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Walorski looks like Sarah Palin's feminist sister who is close actually has views on abortion that challenge Mourdock. It will be interesting if it's different coming from a woman. Could be slightly harder to attack but still far from safe.

If she were to serve along side with Donnelly, it would be interesting to see since he beat her for the House (in 2010 of all years!). I wonder if anything similar ever happened where opponents for a low office both became Senators at the same time from the same state. It seems like a pretty odd occurence.

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How strong is the Dem bench in IN-2?  Any chance we could retake it if Walorski runs for Senate (given the 2012 result I'd think it'd be a real possibility with the right type of candidate).

Can't pretend to know that much, but:

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has an extremely impressive resume: Harvard, Rhodes Scholar, Naval Lieutenant and got elected as Mayor just shy of his 30th birthday in 2011. Also a musician and hometown kid. Running for re-election later this year.

The two stains: Losing statewide to Richard Mourdock in 2010 (but it was 2010...) and tying Bloomberg for Mayor of the Year (sort of an accomplishment but he couldn't beat a statist )

Brendan Mullen didn't do too poorly in 2012 despite Walorski having pretty good name recognition from her 2010 loss. Donnelly and Walorski were both losers prior to their elections to this seat so there's some precedent there. Pro-life, pro-gun, could make it close.

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Hill is solid and may actually get help from voters mad at Pence with no incumbent in this race, but it's not going to get near as much hype and the governor's race is lean R as it is. This has to be the tick above that to start. Likely is a bit strong of a rating.