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Title: Dan Coats wins GOP nomination
Post by: YoungGOP on May 04, 2010, 09:05:57 PM

In the Indiana U.S. Senate race, Former U.S. Senator Dan Coats has won the republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, he is probably going to win this fall as well.

Title: Re: Dan Coats wins GOP nomination
Post by: Mr Mannn on May 04, 2010, 09:41:15 PM

I know nothing about this guy.

Title: Re: Dan Coats wins GOP nomination
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 05, 2010, 07:39:28 AM

But, he got 40% of the vote.  Which means that 60% of the Republican electorate voted against him.

Stutzman will be a voice in the US Senate one day, and maybe pretty soon (2013).

Title: Re: Dan Coats wins GOP nomination
Post by: littlelamb on May 05, 2010, 09:32:42 AM

Can you share more about him

Title: Re: Dan Coats wins GOP nomination
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 05, 2010, 09:47:54 AM

IIRC, Coats already was in the Congress--he took over Dan Quayle's US Senate seat in a special elction in 1990.  He retired in 1998.  He had been in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989.  I know that, in the past, he voted for the Brady Bill in 1993, and Babs Boxer's trigger lock legislation in 1994.  The NRA has done a mailer that says that if Coats won the Republican nomination, they will support the Democrat nominee for Evan Bayh's old seat.