“Evan Bayh” on The Daily Caller

A New Party is Brewing (more)

Ask Southern Democratic politicos if they want President Barack Obama to campaign during the midterms in their state and there is a pause, followed by “Hmmm, no, I don’t see him coming here.” (more)

He sang about small towns but might be considering a move to Washington, D.C. Grammy Award-winning rocker John Mellencamp may make a run for the Senate seat recently vacated by Democrat Evan Bayh. (more)

Last week’s surprise announcement by Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) that he will not seek reelection is yet another shift in the future make-up of the Senate Banking Committee. Bayh’s retirement comes only two months after the Committee’s Chairman, Senator Chris Dodd announced he would not seek reelection. (more)

Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell on Wednesday blasted the Obama White House for creating “a world in which there is no dissent,” following his banishment from Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign for Senate. (more)

Amidst talk about jobs, the retirement of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), the future of health care reform and the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was given the third-degree on his recent entry into the Twitter world at his daily press briefing today. (more)

The rush to fill Sen. Evan Bayh’s seat in Indiana is on. (more)

Hoosier politics took an unexpected turn Monday night when Democratic Senate candidate Tamyra d’Ippolito accused the White House of conspiring with party officials to secretly draft Rep. Baron Hill to run against her. (more)

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Washington — Facing a backlash from the liberal wing of their party, Sen. Evan Bayh and other centrist Democrats are examining their re-election options and deciding to simply walk away, political analysts note. (more)

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If there were any question where lobbying ranks in popularity these days, the attacks on former Senator Dan Coats of Indiana over the past week provide a pretty clear answer. (more)

Three Democratic senators, Evan Bayh of Indiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have declared that they won’t support a plan to have the House pass the Senate health care bill whole, then pass fixes to the bill through the reconciliation process. (more)

Despite a late recruitment push from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) announced he won’t be challenging Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) this year, and will instead seek re-election to the House. (more)

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Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) will meet with the National Republican Senatorial Committee Thursday to discuss a potential campaign against Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), GOP aides confirmed on Wednesday. (more)

Even before the votes are counted, Senator Evan Bayh is warning fellow Democrats that ignoring the lessons of the Massachusetts Senate race will “lead to even further catastrophe” for their party. (more)