Unfortunate Turn for Dems
Family considerations will apparently keep Mark Warner from running for President in 2008. The former Virginia Governor was my walk away favorite to beat John McCain, or any likely Republican challenger.
Senator Evan Bayh from Indiana has the next best hope of winning the Presidency. He is a former Governor of Indiana and this executive experience will help. Importantly, he cut taxes during his time as Governor and the Wall Street Journal gave him some rousing support in 1992. He'll have an easy time winning moderate republicans back from the increasingly Religious Right. He also comes from a political family, which has helped certain politicians in the past.
His record of voting against a long list of Bush nominees should give him enough Democratic support in the primaries. But he is still vulnerable from the left: he will have to defend his decision to vote for Iraq Resolution and the Patriot Act in 2004.
With Warner out of the race, we'll be hearing a lot more about Bayh in the near future.
Posted by Peter
Senator Evan Bayh from Indiana has the next best hope of winning the Presidency. He is a former Governor of Indiana and this executive experience will help. Importantly, he cut taxes during his time as Governor and the Wall Street Journal gave him some rousing support in 1992. He'll have an easy time winning moderate republicans back from the increasingly Religious Right. He also comes from a political family, which has helped certain politicians in the past.
His record of voting against a long list of Bush nominees should give him enough Democratic support in the primaries. But he is still vulnerable from the left: he will have to defend his decision to vote for Iraq Resolution and the Patriot Act in 2004.
With Warner out of the race, we'll be hearing a lot more about Bayh in the near future.
Posted by Peter
posted by PWN at 11:34 AM
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