Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and his challenger in the Republican primary, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, met Wednesday night for their only debate before the primary on May 8. And for a race that has been consumed by a variety of personal attacks, the debate was remarkably calm and issue-centered — but still, with quite a few differences presented between the two.Mourdock made only one slight reference to a controversy that has dogged Lugar in the campaign, involving the incumbent’s residency in the state. At the end of his final question of the night, Mourdock said that he has been proud to call Indiana his home ever since he first moved there in 1973, and if elected to the Senate he would be proud to represent the state that is his home — and, he noted, “…I’m not moving from. I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=99801