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September 28, 2005
Choose your battles wisely, Bayh!
Okay, so I'm in Indiana so I can write about this guy and you all in Maine have to put up with it. You'll hear about this guy soon enough, Evan Bayh is going to run for President in 2008. His is a big political family here in Indiana, and everyone knows his intentions. My local county fair this summer even had an "unofficial" Bayh '08 booth set up.
One of the juiciest things Bayh brings to the table is a very real possibility of swinging Indiana's 11 electoral votes to the blue side; the GOP is going to have to fight hard to keep it, this isn't Edwards and NC, Bayh is actually quite popular here. This only helps in November, though, and to get on that ticket he has to make it through the primary season. To that end, he has thrown the hard-liners a bone by voting against Roberts because he was "vague." This has not gone over well in Indiana, where (I know this may be hard for you to believe, Mainers) newspapers actually write positive things about Republicans and negative things about Democrats. Bayh is going to have to walk a fine line to pull this off. One thing he does have going for him, though, he'd be a whole lot more "electable" than Hillary.
Posted by at September 28, 2005 01:40 PM
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As a Hoosier I've been saying this all along and getting no respect for it in the process, but Bayh is Hillary's only threat. Frankly, he's much more electable than she is. He's got a beautiful wife and twin boys (the perfect nuclear family image), no discernible baggage, an acceptible voting record for the Left, he didn't leave Indiana in shreds (at least that the rest of the nation can see), and he's young -- he's a definite break from the Old School of politics that Hillary (and by extension Teddy) is still tied to. I keep wondering how a Bayh/Gulianni match-up would shake out. All things being equal, I thing Bayh would win.
Posted by: greg at September 29, 2005 10:19 AM
I agree that Bayh is more electable, but what will really tip the scales in his favor is the chance for the Dems to win Indiana. Not as many electoral votes as in the past, but still a 22 point swing. Bayh's one weakness would be Kerry's: he's a flip-flopping poll-windsock. But for all the reasons you cited, he could go all the way.
Posted by: MainiacJoe at September 29, 2005 11:43 AM
Great read! You should definitely follow up to this topic :)
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