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Defeat of Sen. Lugar signals new low in partisan combat

    May 11, 2012

Richard Mourdock, the Indiana state treasurer who ousted 36-year incumbent Senator Richard Lugar in Tuesday’s Republican primary, is entitled to run on an extremely conservative platform, advocating for sweeping budget cuts, additional tax cuts, and a fundamentally smaller government. But his avowed refusal to compromise, in a body whose day-to-day functioning depends on it, is an affront to the American approach to government.

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