Had an interesting conversation with him last year on a LOW-FARE flight to Washington. I worked for him in Northern Indiana in the first campaign for Governor, but I told him that the DEM party in Indiana today, is NOT the party it was then.
In some counties, the DEM HQ's didn't even OPEN in 2004, for lack of Candidates and interest, and no one much seemed to care!
I couldn't even bring myself to VOTE for him this time around, and voted a straight ticket for the first time in my life!
I agree on the party situation here. My immediate family used to be Democratic, but we all switched with Reagan. The Democrats of today, regardless of what state, just about, is not the Democratic party of Kennedy. When you read what he felt, you'd think that he was a Republican. Or at least, what I have read. I was only 3 when he was killed. I think that Bayh did some decent things here in Indy, but when he went to DC, he became one of them.