"Tamyra D’Ippolito is ... a café owner in Bloomington, has never run for a big stakes political office before and few took notice when she started running against the popular incumbent Evan Bayh. Democrats naturally assumed D’Ippolito would A) never get on the ballot or B) get summarily crushed under the Bayh political machine. Oh how wrong that might be. So far the café owner has 3,500 of the 4,500 signatures needed for ballot placement (the law requires at least 500 from each of Indiana’s 9 congressional districts.) The deadline is [Feb. 16] at noon. ... Read more »
Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this year, Fox News has learned.
The two-term Indiana senator is known as a moderate Democrat. His retirement gives Republicans yet another opportunity to pick up a seat in a year when several incumbent Democrats are considered vulnerable.
Former GOP Sen. Dan Coats had been planning to challenge Bayh in November.
"Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh ... was considered a shoo-in for re-election in the Hoosier state. Now election handicappers have moved him from 'safe' to endangered.
"'There's going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this,'" Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, who is up for reelection this year, told ABC News, but "'if you lose Massachusetts and that's not a wake-up call, there's no hope of waking up.'" Like other moderates, Bayh thinks the party has tilted too far left. "'It's why moderates and independents even in a state as Democratic as Massachusetts just aren't buying our message,'" he said. "'They just don't believe the answers we are currently proposing are solving their problems. Read more »
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