Rape remark costs Indiana Republican Senate hopeful poll support
Support for Senate candidate Richard Mourdock has fallen since his recent controversial comments about rape, giving Democrats an unexpected opportunity to pickup a seat on November 6, a poll released on Friday showed.
Eighty-seven percent of respondents in an independent Howey-DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll said they were aware of the remark by the Indiana Republican in a campaign debate on October 23 that pregnancy resulting from rape was “something God intended to happen.”
Forty percent of those polled said they were less likely to vote for Mourdock because of the comment, 6 percent were more likely and 54 percent said it made no difference.