“A strong majority of GOP primary voters felt that Lugar had served too long and was too old and should retire,” said Christine Matthews, a Republican pollster who conducted several bipartisan surveys in the state. “Three-fourths of voters supporting Mourdock said their reasons centered around Lugar’s longevity, age, and lack of residency.”…
Perhaps the most amazing piece of data from the poll conducted late last week by Matthews and Democratic pollster Fred Yang was that, when voters were asked which of the two men “will get things done” in the Senate, Lugar and Mourdock each took 38 percent.
“To think that, after a much-praised political career that started in 1967 and a Senate career that started in 1977, Richard Lugar would be tied on ‘effectiveness’ probably is the most telling result of this campaign,” wrote Yang in a column in the Howey Political Report on the poll data.
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