BRIAN HOWEY: Positives, negatives of campaign 2012

On Election Day, as I headed to my office to watch the returns, I stopped to pick up some Chinese carryout.

Donnelly elected to U.S. Senate; rape comments haunt Mourdock

INDIANAPOLIS | A message of moderate bipartisanship and a major campaign misstep by his opponent helped elect Democrat Joe Donnelly to the U.S. Senate.

Poll: Donnelly takes 11-point lead; governor race tightening

INDIANAPOLIS | Republican Richard Mourdock's controversial debate remark that pregnancies caused by rape are "something that God intended to happen" may have doomed his bid to represent Indiana in the U.S. Senate, according to the Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll released Friday.

Hustler publisher offers Mourdock $1M for proof of God's intent

INDIANAPOLIS | Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt has offered $1 million cash to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock if he can prove pregnancies caused by rape are "something that God intended to happen."

EDITORIAL: We pick Donnelly for U.S. Senate

In the three-way race for U.S. Senate, one candidate stands out as the kind of moderate Indiana needs.

Daniels cites Purdue job to avoid talking about Mourdock

INDIANAPOLIS | Gov. Mitch Daniels declined to reaffirm his prior endorsement of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock on a national television program Thursday night, citing his future position as president of Purdue University.

Mourdock apologizes if rape remarks misunderstood

INDIANAPOLIS | Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock on Wednesday reaffirmed his controversial claim that women who are raped should not be permitted to obtain an abortion because pregnancies resulting from rape are "something that God intended to happen."

Mourdock rape remarks draw responses from across Indiana, nation

INDIANAPOLIS | Hoosiers and political leaders from across the country are reacting to Tuesday's debate remark by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock that pregnancies resulting from rape are "something that God intended to happen."

Mourdock's divine rape stance could shake up Senate race

NEW ALBANY, Ind. | Republican Richard Mourdock opposes abortion even in cases of rape because such pregnancies are God's will, he claimed during Tuesday's final U.S. Senate debate.

Senate candidates differ on right course for America's future

INDIANAPOLIS | It is widely believed that the U.S. Senate is a broken institution, trapped by its own rules into requiring 60 out of 100 votes to take any action.

Senate candidates clash in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS | Both Democrat Joe Donnelly and Republican Richard Mourdock claimed victory following the first U.S. Senate debate Monday, which saw the candidates clash repeatedly on issues of policy and partisanship.

Debate could break deadlock in Indiana's U.S. Senate race

INDIANAPOLIS | Despite months of campaigning and millions of dollars spent on ads by the candidates and their allies, polls continue to show Democrat Joe Donnelly and Republican Richard Mourdock statistically tied in their race to become Indiana's next U.S. senator.

nwi.com Political Roundtable Special Edition

The Times' Doug Ross sits down with Andrew Horning, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate.

Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate wants to end the Fed

INDIANAPOLIS | Libertarian Andrew Horning will work to eliminate the Federal Reserve System if Hoosiers elect him to the U.S. Senate.

BRIAN HOWEY: Independent voters will decide Donnelly/Mourdock race

The increasingly competitive Indiana U.S. Senate race will see more national money pouring in. The Majority PAC, a Democratic super 527 group, made a $500,000 TV ad buy on behalf of Democratic nominee Joe Donnelly last week.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Thanksgiving Day by the book

Given its place in American history, it's shocking how we've perverted our Thanksgiving Day. Most Americans nurture a vague fiction involving buckled shoes and blunderbusses, in which Pilgrims and American Indians joined in a sort of agricultural group-hug to enjoy a bountiful harvest.