I think most of the analysis of this is giving Bayh a lot of credit for “knowing something” that hardly anyone else knows — and there is no evidence that he knows anything at all much less something no one else does. See what I’m sayin’?
The reason the leftists hated Quayle with such a purple passion was that he defeated Birch Bayh in 1980.
actually there is evidence that he truly understood that there was not a chance in hell of him getting re-elected. does that count? ;)
One of two things or maybe a few others:
1. His internal polls not seen by the public after Scott Brown’s win are very bad.
2. He knows the USA is going to go bankrupt fairly soon. No joke. He does not want to be in office or town when it implodes.