IN-SEN: Brains or Braun?

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Unsure if it has been mentioned here, but Donnelly's CM was announced some time ago to be Peter Hanscom, fresh off of two losses as Evan Bayh's CM and Hillary Clinton's Indiana State Director for the primary.

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Unsure if it has been mentioned here, but Donnelly's CM was announced some time ago to be Peter Hanscom, fresh off of two losses as Evan Bayh's CM and Hillary Clinton's Indiana State Director for the primary.

Hanscom sucks. Why would Donnelly pick him?

Failing upward is a very real phenomenon in professional politics, especially for white dudes with a professional affect.

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Messer says he will make an official decision “in the next couple months.” It does sound like both he and Rokita will run though. Rokita is expected to announce in the early summer. AG Curtis Hill and State Rep. Mike Braun are also looking at a potential run.

http://cbs4indy.com/2017/05/31/television-ads-hint-at-whats-to-come-for-indianas-2018-u-s-senate-race/
http://howeypolitics.com/Files/HPI170525.pdf#page=10

Beautiful. I hope this is a dumpster fire.

Curtis Hill just got elected this cycle against no real effective opposition. I'll be amused to see what kind of campaign he runs in an honest-to-goodness cutthroat primary.

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Not a lot of Indiana talk, eh?

The imbalance between the MO-GOP and IN-GOP has just become comical. A year ago McCaskill was definitely more vulnerable than Donnelly, but one state GOP has been decently competent and the other certainly has not. Braun is the only GOP challenger to any Dem Senator that I would consider an (exceedingly slight) favorite right now.

Indiana Republicans lucked out since they had a rich “some guy” to vote for as opposed to having to vote for one of their already elected officials.

Yeah, I'd say that the INGOP was so incompetent they completely removed themselves from the equation tbh.