This is a bit deceitful, so let's correct the record. Richard Mourdock said that in 2012, two years after his 2010 race against Pete. Also, as I'm sure you know, 2010 was a massive red wave election in which the Dems lost 60+ house seats, and Indiana was still very much a red state (despite Obama carrying it two years earlier). There's no way any Democrat was going to overcome those headwinds and win statewide in Indiana, so let's not pretend any of this says anything about Pete's strengths as a candidate.