Polls still show him favored in the June 26 primary, but Hatch now faces his first serious challenger since he won his seat in 1976. And, as Richard Lugar can testify — the 80-year-old Indiana colleague of Hatch’s is now suddenly neck and neck with a challenger in his own May 8 primary — a lot can happen in the few weeks of an intense campaign.
(See also related Bloomberg and The Economist stories.)


Since Hatch has now morphed into Frank Moss, it will be poetic justice if he is beaten by Dan Liljenquist, who has the kind of energy and ideas that made Hatch so formidable--36 years ago.
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