WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It’s not just polls showing him about to dispatch six-term Sen. Dick Lugar.
It feels like Richard Mourdock has victory at his fingertips.
On the final day of the gripping Indiana Republican Senate primary contest, the mood and temperament of the two candidates were like night and day.
Mourdock’s final campaign event in this college town was all celebratory hugs and applause, a prediction of victory and a forward-looking speech offering reconciliation with the 36-year incumbent he hopes to oust.
Lugar, by contrast, spent his last full day on the stump defending earmarks, touting that he won over a pair of voters who saw him as the “least worst of the two” and pinning his hopes on the unlikely scenario that Democrats and independents will turn out in higher-than-expected numbers.
If Lugar is somehow able to survive Tuesday night, it will surprise even his own supporters.
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