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GOP Headed for Senate Seat Pickup in Indiana as Dan Coats Builds Big Lead

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Democrats appear on their way to losing the Indiana senate seat being vacated by Evan Bayh with the state's one-time Republican senator, Dan Coats, pulling out to a 51 percent to 30 percent lead over Democratic Rep. Brad Ellsworth, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted July 7-8. Six percent prefer some other candidate and 12 percent are undecided.

Coats broke the 20 point mark in his margin over Ellsworth after leading him by 14 points in an early June survey.

Dan CoatsEllsworth has the backing so far of only 69 percent of fellow Democrats while Coats gets 83 percent support from Republicans. Coats also takes 15 percent of the Democratic vote. He leads by better than a 3-to-1 margin among unaffiliated voters.

Coats served as senator from 1989 to 1999.

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kbwayman

Being a Hoosier, I find Dan Coats unimpressive to say the least. He has not even lived in Indiana for years. He has represented big business as a lobbyist. He can't even tell us straight for whom he worked. To me, he represents the past, the old, the tried, but not the true. I will not be voting for him nor do I accept that he will win this early in the game.

July 12 2010 at 10:16 PM Report abuse -3 rate up rate down Reply
chclttrffls

I guess that "Hope and Change " thingy hasn't reaaly caught on the way we were promissed. The WH press secretary Gibbs is now admittin g on camera that the Dems will probably lose the house......if he is stating that publicly than it will be a bloodbath in both houses!!!

July 12 2010 at 8:01 PM Report abuse +5 rate up rate down Reply
I love USA

we all remember....the senator from Indiana voted yes on obamacare....that senator was a democrat....no democrat will win because they voted for obamacare!

that is the rule of thumb....the millions and millions of us Americans that wrote, emailed, marched, protested against obamacare and the entire democratic party ignored us and spit in our faces....oh, no! you will not win this election.

we are organized and going over state lines to make sure the democrats' opponents win.....we do not want anyone in the federal government that supported and/or voted for obamacare!

July 12 2010 at 7:00 PM Report abuse +6 rate up rate down Reply

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