Evan Bayh is the most conservative democrat on the planet! And his wife is a healthcare insurance lobbyist.

a Democrat til it's time to vote on legislation...

He also voted for Democratic-appointed judges.

and conceivably Trump's VP choice. Pence had hid his strong social and religious conservative agenda from voters until he was office, and now he stands a real chance of losing his bid for reelection. A popular former Democratic governor entering the senate race could tilt the political climate even farther against Pence.

Pence is being vetted for Trump's VP but was reportedly waiting for a "call" to tell him how he should serve in future. This bad news may just be the "call."

Some blue staters don't realize what it takes for a democrat to win in a blood red state. I'd gladly have a Dem like Bayh in my state TN

but NOT for putting Indiana in play with a realistic candidate.

Take our wins where we can get them!

his time a majority leader aggressively. He routinely pisses me off, but only because he gets it right some and I always fool myself into expecting more.

I'm not.

Which can't be said for his R opponent.

A progressive isn't going to win in Indiana.

And, BTW, he's running in fucking IN!

So if he wins, we have a Democratic US Senator from fucking Indiana.

How is that bad? And what is the alternative?

Sorry, Eugene Debs does not win a Senate seat in IN. But Democrat Bayh can help Dems gain the majority in the US Senate.

We need that desparately.

That's what this about.

I will be thrilled if Evan Bath wins.

like get behind someone much earlier on and build support for that candidate ?

i don't like Bayh but any pick ups for democrats would be good.

any day of the week.....

if you want to control the Senate, you have to accept that...Bayn would still vote for us in most things.

That being said, he's about as liberal as you can be and get elected in 2016 Indiana.

And as I remember, Indiana was less wackoid in those days.

I would gladly welcome back Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson.

Many around here would prefer Confederate Apologist Jim Webb over these real Democrats.

I remember thinking, are Democrats like these really that much better than Republicans? Well thanks Repukes for reminding me that yes, even the most conservative Democrat is better than a Republican. There was a time many decades ago when that wasn't necessarily the case, but with the Repukes having completely purged themselves of moderates there is no longer such thing as a Republican who's to the left of a Democrat.

I lived in Indiana when he and Lugar were the two. I liked Lugar better. I called Bayh's office often then, and there was one thing certain, he would vote the opposite of my concerns. If you guys think he's the best way to win, I'm with you. I think about the Supreme Court all the time. Maybe he will go to the left under pressure, different from a different pressure then in the mid 2000s.

After all he made his millions, and his dad was kick ass. No republican is better than a democrat now, but Richard Luger was better than Evan Bayh then.

Well that and the fact that Lugar had the audacity to befriend a certain black Democrat. To the Republican electorate that's an unforgivable sin. Thankfully Mourdock was too loony even for today's Indiana.

For years and years I have watched him get it right most of the time. If he wanted this, good enough for me in this instance.

I'm just saying. And if the Senate flips because of Bayh, I will be happy.

...he's apparently got $10 M left over from his last campaign.

Guess it's time to make an optometrist appointment.

anything that makes the GOP spend money and time is good. We need to starve and bleed the beast. Granted, we will also need to tell Evan that any end runs around Obama or even Hillary will get him slapped as hard as any GOP.

...and so this will help elect Russ Feingold.

"Don't rock the boat" moderate. Indiana never struck me as a state that wanted a barn burner in office. Excitement and Indiana go together about as well as oil and water. I bet Bayh wins in a landslide.

Then, we look to our north, and we see Scott Wanker and that horrific Ron Johnson. At least Feingold is moving well in the polls. It could be that three new D senators come from the midwest, Duckworth, Bayh, and Feingold. That would be a coup!