Exit Dick Lugar, and GOP nonpartisanship

Richard Lugar, who was first elected to the Senate in 1976, has been defeated in the Indiana primary by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. Conservatives ranging from the National Rifle Association to local Tea Party activists threw their support behind

The last stand of Richard Lugar | The political career of the longest serving Republican in the Senate is expected to end in defeat on Tuesday.

The last stand of Richard Lugar | The political career of the longest serving Republican in the Senate is expected to end in defeat on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — Richard Lugar, the longest-serving Republican currently in the US Senate, lost to a more conservative, tea-party-backed candidate in Indiana's primary, US media projected. With two-thirds of precincts

Richard Lugar has lost the Indiana Republican primary for Senate to Richard Mourdock. It isn't close: he's headed to a 60 percent to 40 percent defeat. (Interestingly, his Senate colleague Dan Coats only got 39 percent in the