The national and state Democrats are already out with statements in the Indiana primary, in which longtime Republican Sen. Dick Lugar is projected to lose to the more right-wing state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. And they are striking a conciliatory tone toward Lugar, in an effort to depict Mourdock as out of the mainstream, as Mourdock heads into the general election against Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly.
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