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Troubling Signs for Both Parties in Yesterday's Elections
There were no real surprises in election results last night, but there were some surprises in the margins of the vote. In Indiana, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock was expected to beat incumbent Senator Richard Lugar , who valued cooperation over confrontation, but not by 20 points.
By Judy Muller • • 1 min readThere were no real surprises in election results last night, but there were some surprises in the margins of the vote. In Indiana, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock was expected to beat incumbent Senator Richard Lugar, who valued cooperation over confrontation, but not by 20 points. In North Carolina, Amendment One banning gay marriage and civil unions was expected to pass, but not by twenty points. We hear more about yesterday's results from Karen Tumulty national political correspondent for the Washington Post, and Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Judy Muller
University of Southern California
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Lata Pandya
Assistant Producer, To the Point/Which Way, LA?
Gideon Brower
Independent Producer
Karen Tumulty
columnist and deputy opinion editor, Washington Post
Larry Sabato
Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball. He’s author of “The Kennedy Half Century; The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy.”