If Hillary gets remotely close to securing the nomination, or if she does, Evan Bayh will be named her VP candidate. He helps win votes in a red state, brings a Midwestern flavor to the ticket (since Hillary disowns her own roots except when she's, you know, campaigning in the Midwest), and he's been used to offer a moderate dimension to the national Democratic scene before (see the DNC from a few years back).
In doing so, Bayh would finally receive the national PR he needs to make a legitimate run at the White House - his campaign stalled early on this year, but I think it's interesting that he still dropped out earlier than what most expected. Maybe it was some early signal calling on the Clinton campaign's behalf; they did, after all, anticipate having the election wrapped up by Super Tuesday.
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Unfortunately there is the problem that mathematically Hillary cannot win enough delegates to win.
Unless this counts:
http://www.caglepost.com/cartoon/RJ+Matson/50377/Hillary+Is+Really+Winning-COLOR.html
Hmm, I didn't realize Bayh was a Clinton supporter. I was speculating last night about Obama picking him to try and win Indiana, but it looks like that was really pure speculation.
Billy, I'm aware that Clinton can't mathematically win the nomination - but crazier things have happened, and they tend to happen when the Clintons are involved. I'm very wary of what's happening to the Democratic Party because of all this.
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