The polls were right. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) lost his primary to state Treasurer RichardMourdock by nearly 20 percentage points.
|Voters rejected Lugar because of qualities that had been hisstrengths during his long political career; in particular, hisability to reach across party lines was cited as a turn-off forvoters this year.
|Lugar had held his Senate seat for 36 years, a run that hadearned him the title of most senior Republican senator.
|In the process, credit unions lost a long-time supporter. Inaddition to supporting credit union legislation, he served as anhonorary race director for the credit union-sponsored CherryBlossom 10-Mile Run.
|CUNA said Tuesday its PAC had donated $5,000, the maximum amountallowable, to Lugar's re-election campaign.
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