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Terry Mitchell writes that:

Many Democrats may see Evan Bayh as just the candidate they need in the wake of Kerry's recent loss. He is a strong Democrat from a solidly "red" state, i.e., he was overwhelmingly elected to a second term as senator even as George W. Bush overwhelmingly carried his state in the presidential election (as all Republican candidates have in recent presidential elections). Bayh had previously served two terms as governor of Indiana. He is one of the leaders of the moderate Democrat movement. His father, Birch Bayh, was also a U.S. Senator and ran in the Democratic primaries for president in 1976, but was defeated by Jimmy Carter. Bayh is my dark horse pick to take the nomination. The only negative about him is that he seems to have a smirk on his face all the time and looks like he belongs on a TV show like Saturday Night Live!

Terry, aside from the SNL idea, you are exactly right and he will get the nomination. I know a good candidate when I see one!
Moveon.org is the latest grassroots movement to try and decide who the next DNC Chairman will be. The party does not work this way. Moveon thinks that they own the party. Hello? Do you not notice the many Democrats that are in the Midwest and South? Liberal just doesn't cut here. I say: "Keep the Base, Take the Center!" You want to alienate the south? Choose Dean. You want to back our country? Choose Simon Rosenberg. Grassroots does not decide the chairmanship. It will be Simon Rosenberg, not Governor Dean.
John Edwards was on Larry King Live last night. The AP reports:

Elizabeth Edwards has lost a lot of her hair, which her young children find funny, and has received notes of encouragement from President Bush and first lady Laura Bush as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer.

Will Senator Edwards run for office again or return to law?

Asked about his future, Sen. Edwards said it was unlikely he would return to his law practice, since he and his wife prefer public service. Asked about running for president again, Edwards said, "That's a decision we'll have to make down the road and we have other priorities right now."
Mrs. Edwards said her husband has "a unique and powerful voice and I think that it's a voice that we need on the national stage."

Yes, Sen. Edwards is very charismatic but I must point out from Terry Mitchell again that

However, the biggest obstacle for him will be his status as a vice presidential nominee on a losing ticket. Candidates in both parties who lose in their bid for vice president, without having first won, have great difficulty getting a presidential nomination. For example, Joe Lieberman's campaign crashed and burned after the New Hampshire Primary in January. Before this year, Sargent Shriver (in 1976) and Edmund Muskie (in 1972) were the last failed vice presidential nominees to seek the Democratic presidential nomination and they were both rejected as well. On the Republican side, Bob Dole was finally able to capture his party's nomination in 1996 after a failed bid for vice president in 1976. However, even he was turned away in his first two attempts (1980 and 1988).

Bayh urges more armored vehicles.

"I can only hope the government will listen more to our soldiers than they do to members of the Senate, because this is something that needs to get done," Bayh, D-Ind., said in a telephone news conference. "We've got a moral responsibility to provide our troops with the equipment they need to accomplish their mission and protect their security.
"Unfortunately, it's a responsibility that too often in Iraq has not been met," he said.

Is this a sign that Senator Evan Bayh will be running in 2008? I sure hope so since I am leading up a campaign to Draft Bayh 2008! The National Bayh Network is set up and running on Yahoo! Groups.