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Rokita Easily Wins Primary; WBAA Projects He'll Face John Dale In November

WFIU Public Media

10:00 p.m. Tuesday update:

With a majority of the vote counted, WBAA is projecting Democrat John Dale will be his party's nominee to challenge incumbent Congressman Todd Rokita in the November general election.

With all but three counties reporting as of late Tuesday, Dale held a 1500-vote lead and had won 12 of the 14 counties whose returns had been reported to the Indiana Secretary of State's office.

Dale is a history teacher at Western Boone High School who's run on a platform of compromise -- often claiming Rokita has failed to do it while in Washington.

Earlier:

Despite claims from his sole Republican challenger that all it'd take to defeat incumbent Rokita (R-4th) was a $45 a month website bill, the two-term congressman easily bested Kevin Grant in Tuesday's primary election.

Democrats spent the primary season clamoring about Rokita's vote to shut down the federal government as the nation veered toward debt default, but early results show Rokita easily out-polling all of them too.

Rokita, like all of Indiana's congresspeople, is expected to retain his seat in November. None of the races for any of the state's nine districts was much in doubt during the primaries.

This story will be updated.

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