Indiana

Was The U.S. Senate Race Over Before It Started?

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

With 70+ days until Election Day, what polling data has been done is showing a bleak picture for Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Brad Ellsworth.

The chart below, courtesy of pollster.com shows Republican Dan Coats with a very comfortable lead over Ellsworth and Libertarian challenger Rebecca Sink-Burris.

And while polls are snapshots in time, take enough snapshots and you can get the full picture.   Coats has maintained a 14-21 point lead over Ellsworth since early this year.   And the longer that goes,  the harder it will be for Ellsworth to get ahead.  My colleague Mike O’Brien pontificated on this in a recent blog post.

Now the good news for Ellsworth is that we’re still a long way from Election Day  and Democrats have yet to launch a massive television campaign attacking Coats on his lobbyist ties.

However, a someone who teaches school, there comes a point where the grade you have is the grade you’re going to get, so someone is going to have to step up real quick.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).