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Bacon King
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« on: February 23, 2011, 08:36:54 AM »
« edited: February 23, 2011, 08:49:23 AM by Bacon King »

Daniels won't ruin his cred with GOP activists to save Lugar, not when he's eyeing a 2012 Presidential run.

But hey, Lugar (I-IN) would be great. Unfortunately Indiana has some draconian ballot access laws, though: as an independent candidate he'd need 34,195 signatures by the end of June.

(edit: fixed the number of signatures. FYI: in Indiana, a candidate not running for a party with automatic ballot access has to get a number of signatures equal to 2% of the total votes cast in the most recent Secretary of State election to appear on the ballot.)
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Bacon King
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E: -7.63, S: -9.49

« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 01:23:56 PM »

Finally, National Journal has released its ratings for Lugar,

In their schema he as a conservative rating of 63.7, with almost all Republican Senators having higher ratings.

Waiting on Americans for Democratic Action to get their act together.

But if you look at the breakdown, you'll see that pretty much the only reason he appears to be so moderate is his stance on foreign policy issues. He's to the right of the party center on economic issues and slightly to the left of it on social issues. Pretty conservative for a Republican in an Obama state, no?

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