Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120508:17:02:00
So i think in some ways, dick lugar, it is a little bit self-inflicted because i know that people sat down with him and said 16 months ago this is going to be a tough race. you need to do this, this, and this in order to win it. i think he ultimately decided he wasn't comfortable changing kind of the core of who he had been in the senate. admirable, but likely to cause him to lose tonight. >> and lose to the state treasurer, richard mourdock, who is not just a tea party candidate. he's also a well-known hoosier figure. >> right. he's a state-wide elected official, number one. the thing that i ...