According to the South Bend Tribune, SouthBendTribune.com: Family priorities keep Roemer from Senate run.
Roemer’s decision ended speculation that began more than a month ago when a statewide Democratic poll indicated that, with a sufficient increase in Roemer’s name identification, he could come close in a matchup with Lugar.
A second poll, taken by the Lugar campaign in mid-June, indicated that Roemer clearly does not have that name recognition now, and would be trounced by Lugar in a head-to-head campaign.
“We would have run a positive race,” said Roemer, adding that had he decided to run he would have “talked about new ideas about what government should be doing to reform things,” rather than what Washington doesn’t do.
Questions in both of the polls indicated that the majority of Hoosiers believe the nation is on the wrong track.
Roemer said he believes the poll finding indicated that there is a need for change in the air and a “disconnect and discontent with Washington” by the American people.
It would have been a positive race that would have been both interesting and intriguing, Roemer said.
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