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villager

(26,001 posts) Thu Mar 26, 2015, 06:20 PM Mar 2015

Could Indiana's new hate law provide an opening for a Democratic Senate pick-up? [View all]

Just some out loud wondering. With the already surprising extent of the backlash to Indiana's just-signed new hate-and-discrimination law, I wonder if it will backfire to the extent that a Democratic candidate could pick up the soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat?

To be sure, this candidate will not be able to run as a "faux Republican" in this scenario, but rather, stand firmly "against hate, to show America that Indiana is better than this," etc.

Would be great if there was some additional political cost to the GOP for this, in addition to the fiduciary ones already, justifiably, piling up on the Hoosier State.

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Could Indiana's new hate law provide an opening for a Democratic Senate pick-up? [View all] villager Mar 2015 OP

You would have to assume that the voters who upaloopa Mar 2015 #1

Yep, these are the damn fools they vote in, they must really like them and their policies. RKP5637 Mar 2015 #2

It's a huge assumption, but I'm wondering there'd be enough in the middle, also hurt... villager Mar 2015 #3

If nothing else, any person running for office there needs to be asked their opinion on it arcane1 Mar 2015 #4

Certainly Pence's signature has now guaranteed this to be part of future campaigns there villager Mar 2015 #5

Doubt It Hoosiers Want LGBT People Deported From Their State Most Likely TheMastersNemesis Mar 2015 #6

You may be right. We will find out in the months ahead if "pocketbook persuasion" gets to villager Mar 2015 #7

Hoosiers Seem To Be More Backward Than Mississippi. TheMastersNemesis Mar 2015 #8

It could be that the crippling economic backlash will just shake more of the few remaining smart villager Mar 2015 #9

Or they'll blame their new poverty on "libruls" and join militias arcane1 Mar 2015 #10

It's not funny at all. But the fallout seems to be coming faster, and more furiously... villager Mar 2015 #11