Posted on 09/30/2016 3:20:18 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
“I was going to vote for him because he’s Evan Bayh. Evan Bayh!” said Ms. Brown, 69, a Republican, who has fond memories of the Democrat who is seeking to take back his Senate seat after a more than five-year hiatus. “But then I saw all those commercials about all the money he made when he left office, and I think I am for the other guy now.”
When Mr. Bayh, swimming in cash and latent ambition, decided in mid-July that he would take another run at his old job, Democrats were overjoyed.
They believed that Mr. Bayh, 60, whose two terms each as governor and senator were mostly won with ease, had turned a lost cause in a red state into a sure win. By collectively pushing former Representative Baron Hill, the (likely doomed) Democrat, out of the race and replacing him with Mr. Bayh, they instantly elevated the party’s chances to take back the Senate.
But Republicans attacked as quickly and voraciously as a cougar whose dinner has been threatened. Over the last few months, conservative groups have buried Mr. Bayh in ads mocking his Senate retirement, questioning his ties to Indiana and criticizing his work as a consultant for a Washington lobbying firm.
In an election year in which many voters appear to be embracing outsider credentials over experience, Mr. Bayh could find that there are limits to the good will that voters will extend to a candidate with fraying connections to his home state.
Federal records show that nearly $6 million in media spending by outside groups has targeted Mr. Bayh since he got into the race, and groups have more ready to go next month. (Also unhelpful: Mr. Bayh flubbed his home address during an interview.)
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Todd Young and his allies have put this race on the map. Democrats still think they’ll win here, but admit it’s become much harder than they had expected.
Trump & Pence are going to help bury this fraud....wrong year to run Evan.
Indiana thread.
Reminds me a bit of when former Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska tried to run for election again. Part of his problem was that he had not lived in Nebraska for many years, and had no home in Nebraska when he ran for election again.
IN will go Trump.
GOP is tying Bayh to the unpopular Hillary.
He’s keeping his distance from her.
His Father was a big gun control advocate. I bet he is too.
I remember a slogan probably from the NRA: “Birch is a bad Bayh”.
Bayh is a bore.
I won’t be voting for him. He votes the same as Hillary. No good in my book.
I was gonna mention Birch’s gun control but you got it first. From back in the 60’s!
Don’t care much for Young but Evan bye is way worse and bad for the 2nd amendment.
And it was all about the so-called ‘Saturday Night Special’ el-cheapo handguns no real gunny would be caught dead with...
The ads are depicting Bayh as the last vote for Bummercare to push it over the edge. When it was really Scott.
The ads are correct. Bayh was the 60th vote in favor of Obamacare.
Scott would've been the 41st vote against, had he been seated.
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