Posted on August 18th, 2008 at 11:07 pm by Michael Jezierski
Red Herring Watch: Evan Bayh as BHO’s Veep?

I just picked up off the Free Republic a screenshot someone posted of CNN’s website. The CNN website indicated an aide has stated Democrat Presidential presumptive nominee Barack Obama has picked Indiana junior Senator Evan Bayh to be his Veep choice. CNN has since yanked the story. Considering how little Birch Evans Bayh III brings to a Bayh Obama ticket, the question begs asking – Is it real or a red herring?

This will be interesting to see develop….

(Crossposted to the DFB)

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8 Responses

  1. Could Bayh really bring Indiana too the Dems?

    The really negative would be for our Republican Congressional Candidates

    Posted by dave on August 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm |

  2. Not really sure Bayh has all that much weight left here. You can look back and see the barren tundra the Bayh and O’Bannon administrations left Indiana before Gov. Daniels took office.

    Bayh impersonated a moderate while Governor but once he drank the Potomac koolaid he became the Daily K00k Moron.org liberal we all know him for now.

    Conventional wisdom says having POTUS candidate and Veep from such a close proximity to each other is a bad combination. Then again look at Clinton and Gore being from neighboring states Arkansas and Tennessee, respectively.

    Posted by Michael Jezierski on August 19th, 2008 at 12:04 am |

  3. Let it be so.

    Bring him on.

    Posted by Scott on August 19th, 2008 at 12:21 am |

  4. Holy cow. And I read it at Hoosier Access first. ;-)

    The following from earlier is still on-line indicating a lot of Dems think Bayh is the guy.

    http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/08/18/will-it-be-an-obama-bayh-ticket.html

    Posted by sshepard94 on August 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am |

  5. I am not quite sure that Bayh is a good choice, though I certainly think it will make Indiana closer.

    What strikes me as I think through Bayh’s career is just how shallow this guy is. He has tried to run for President himself a couple of times–never getting any traction. My guess is that personally he is somewhat blue dogish, but he seems to morph into whatever might help him. I mean he was in the tank for Hillary first, and now he is singing Obama’s praises. He was for the war–one of the strongest supporters among the Democrats–and now he is talking about how bad it was from the start. This pattern went back a long way in his national career.

    It may hurt us here in Indiana, but my suspicion is that it will not help Obama nationally.

    Posted by Joel Harris on August 19th, 2008 at 9:03 am |

  6. SUSA just has a new poll out and McCain is leading but not by as much as I expected

    McCain 50
    Obama 44

    http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=3c299ac8-437b-4ecc-9f0e-2d2ba6a36e92

    Posted by dave on August 19th, 2008 at 7:55 pm |

  7. “To increase it’s mailing list?”

    I don’t think CNN would make a high school grammar mistake.

    Posted by mikeyc252 on August 19th, 2008 at 10:36 pm |

  8. You apparently haven’t read the IndyStar online in the past few months. Several glaring spelling errors, and this is stuff that was POSTED.

    So seeing grammar and spelling mistakes on media websites is not surprising (and to be fair I’ve seen it on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News).

    Posted by Michael Jezierski on August 19th, 2008 at 10:49 pm |

   
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