Ousted Democrat Announces Indiana Senate Bid

[brooklynite]

Source: Roll Call

Former Democratic Rep. Baron Hill told a crowd at a Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Columbus, Ind., that he’ll run for the open Senate seat in the Hoosier State in 2016, becoming the first Democrat to enter the contest.

“I want to be your next senator,” Hill told the audience, according to the Republic, a local newspaper based in Columbus.

While Hill’s announcement makes him the first top-tier Democrat to enter the race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Dan Coats, national Democrats have their eye on another potential candidate: former Sen. Evan Bayh.

Bayh’s 2010 retirement led to Coats’ return. He left the Senate, citing partisan gridlock as the reason for his exit, with more than $10 million in a campaign account. Though many Democrats don’t expect Bayh to run, operatives from both parties say he’d enter the contest as the front-runner.

Read more: http://atr.rollcall.com/baron-hill-2016-indiana-senate-bid-democrat/

[montanacowboy]

1. Oh God Not again

Evan Bayh - the darling of the DLC Third Wayers, just what we need NOT

[brooklynite]

2. Name a progressive who can win in Indiana...

Seriously. I didn't support Donnelly because of his position on Planned Parenthood funding, but I was under no illusion that someone more liberal would have been competitive with Murdock.

[cosmicone]

3. Just like the tea party

thinks repukes don't win because they are not conservative enough,

we have our own green-tea-party that thinks democrats don't win because they are not progressive enough.

Some on our side believe that a far left progressive/populist could even win in Alabama if given a chance.

[bluestateguy]

4. Birch Bayh!

If it was still 1974, that is.