INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana tea partyers may have aced their first test by ousting U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in May, but Tuesday’s election promises to be a far tougher final exam as they work to push Republican Richard Mourdock across the finish line.
Volunteers with Hoosiers for Conservative Senate lined a northside Indianapolis intersection Sunday, waving signs and cheering on cars that honked at them.
They chafed at a recent poll that showed Democrat Joe Donnelly with a significant lead over Mourdock and said it only made them more fired up. Tuesday’s election will test whether Indiana’s tea partyers can succeed where groups in Delaware, Nevada and Colorado failed in 2010.
Indiana’s Senate seat is one of a handful that will determine control of the Senate.
