Who Wins the Indiana Senate GOP Primary?

[Bismarck]

I think Luke Messer, it will be interesting to see what happens if Bannon and the crazies get behind Rokita though. Also Indiana politics makes sense to me, at least as much as any other state. Lugar losing was the only really crazy thing that happened. Young beating Bayh was an upset but given that Young is a very skilled campaigner, the fact that Trump won in a landslide, and that Bayh had such an easy to attack record, this race still makes sense. Indiana elected mainstream republicans to the governors office and senate, while rejecting the far right Mourdock in favor of a centrist democrat.

[Bismarck]

Nothing in Indiana politics has made sense since Lugar got taken out.

Indiana could do a lot worse than Donnelly and Young in the Senate and Holcomb as Governor.

Amen to that. As far as the general election goes I think it will be very close. Donnelly is just very inoffensive, and we are elastic enough that if Trump is unpopular he could eek out a narrow win. Young won by hammering away at the same few points over and over again and being very on message. The GOP candidate will have to find a message to rally around in this same way. For example, Young, despite being pretty policy focused in the house, basically just repeated "I'm a marine and Evan Bayh doesn't live here" until everyone in the state knew those two facts.