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His campaign may be correct that it's the media's fault that he didn't win his Senate race in Indiana, as it claimed in a fundraising email. If the media hadn't reported that he actually said rape pregnancies are a "gift from God," he might have won.
Today in Poll Watch: Colorado, a back-up for Obama, has the president in a small lead for the most part, a CNN/ORC International Poll has Obama up by three, and Mourdock drops (though not according to him) in Indiana.
Gallup sees President Obama strong on approval rating even though Rasmussen doesn't, and the Indiana Senate race is tight.
The massive drug ring run from Indiana prisons, revealed in a federal indictment on Wednesday, is amazing for the sheer level of connectivity between the prisoners, traffickers, and guards allegedly involved.
Todd Akin isn't the only candidate who could cost the Republicans the Senate.
The Supreme Court did not hand down its decision on Obamacare today but it did reveal clues about how it views federal power.
Mitch Daniels won't be Mitt Romney's vice-president, he'll be president of Purdue University instead, The Indianapolis Star reports.
If the National Rifle Association is so mad at Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar that it's launching an unusual primary campaign against him, why did it wait until now?
In some of the big swing states that helped Mitt Romney beat his opponents -- Florida, Ohio -- he's going to have a harder time fighting President Obama, due in part to a better economy. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
This feels like a Catch-22: An election board in Sen. Richard Lugar's Indiana hometown ruled him ineligible to vote Thursday because he's lived in Virginia since voters sent him to Washington in 1977.
As the death toll climbs from yesterday's record-breaking storms across the central and southern U.S., a miraculous discovery leaves many asking, "How?"
If you have been reading the political web today, you've probably come across Bob Morris, an Indiana State Representative who has condemned the Girl Scouts as "sexualizing" young girls and molding them into "feminists, lesbians, or Communists." Let's get to know him better.
The State of Indiana released its official findings today in last summer's collapse of a stage at the state fair, and the blame goes mostly to the company that built the stage and the union that worked on it.
Rick Santorum might not be allowed onto the Indiana primary ballot in May, and no not just because he might have lost all hope of overcoming Mitt Romney by then, but because he's at least 30 signatures short.
At least five are dead and over 40 are injured after the catastrophe
Emails from Phillip Hinkle asked a male 18-year-old "for a really good time"
Wife of potential 2012 candidate Mitch Daniels gave her first political speech Thursday
Cheri Daniels has been reluctant to get in the political game, in part because of her past
Carlos Lam is the second Hoosier official to lose his job over violent anti-union messages
Ohio Senate gets closer to curbing collective bargaining for public employees, while Wisconsin and Illiinois stays stalemated
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