Evan Bayh used taxpayer cash for hotel stays

[The Other Castro]

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What's next, does he have a secret lovechild? Sigh...

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/evan-bayh-taxpayer-cash-hotel-stays-230692

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

It's funny how Bayh went from having a commanding lead to a tie...he was way too overhyped.

[Bismarck]

Evan Bayh is terrible. News at 11:00.
Really hope Young can pull it off.

[SATW]

yaaaas #Young4SEN

[Maxwell]

well goes to show running moderate heros is always a terrible move.

we tried

[Orser67]

I very much prefer his policies to those of Young, but Bayh kinda sucks as a person

[IceSpear]

I like how every Evan Bayh hit piece is from Politico. Did he piss off their owner somehow?

[Cashew]

I very much prefer his policies to those of Young, but Bayh kinda sucks as a person

[Speed of Sound]

I very much kinda prefer his policies to those of Young, but Bayh kinda sucks as a person

[publicunofficial]

Yeah, if I lived in Indiana, and wasn't a hyper-partisan hack, I'd be voting Young.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

well goes to show running moderate heros is always a terrible move.

we tried

I like how every Evan Bayh hit piece is from Politico. Did he piss off their owner somehow?

Keep in mind that I hear that the INDems coordinated campaign's field/GOTV plan is pretty good (from what I hear). I'll still rate this Lean-D

[Phony Moderate]

I wouldn't mind at all to see this washed-up Moderate Hero go down in flames.

[Del Tachi]

well goes to show running moderate heros washed up corporate lobbyists who haven't won statewide in over ten years is always a terrible move.

FTFY

[Mr.Phips]

Goodbye!!!

[jamestroll]

well goes to show running moderate heros is always a terrible move.

we tried

Wow, so you really think that every single Democratic senator should have the exact same beliefs and policies, and every single Republican senator should have the exact same beliefs and policies.

There are more Republican than Democratic states, and Democrats do pack themselves in small geographical areas. The party needs some moderates or pragmatic members to have a house or senate majority, sorry.

That being said, this race was always  going to be competitive. Bayh has not won an election since 2004 and has been out of office since 2011.

[Virginiá]

well goes to show running moderate heros is always a terrible move.

we tried

It's not the moderate angle - Bayh just sucks.

[DavidB.]

Bayh Bayh

[publicunofficial]

well goes to show running moderate heros is always a terrible move.

we tried

Wow, so you really think that every single Democratic senator should have the exact same beliefs and policies, and every single Republican senator should have the exact same beliefs and policies.

There are more Republican than Democratic states, and Democrats do pack themselves in small geographical areas. The party needs some moderates or pragmatic members to have a house or senate majority, sorry.

That being said, this race was always  going to be competitive. Bayh has not won an election since 2004 and has been out of office since 2011.

There's a difference between a moderate and a moderate hero.

A moderate has legitimate middle-of-the-aisle political beliefs, i.e. Colin Peterson or Ileana Rod-Lehtinen.

A Moderate Hero will roadblock and water down every piece of legislation his party produces, just for the sake of telling voters that he stands up to leadership and not get certain interest groups after them i.e. Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, ect.

[KingSweden]

Young actually seems like he'd be not totally terrible (he's not Stutzman) but damn if Bayh hasn't been a dumpster Fire of a disaster this year

[Xing]

Bayh is an HP. News at 11.

[jamestroll]

well goes to show running moderate heros is always a terrible move.

we tried

Wow, so you really think that every single Democratic senator should have the exact same beliefs and policies, and every single Republican senator should have the exact same beliefs and policies.

There are more Republican than Democratic states, and Democrats do pack themselves in small geographical areas. The party needs some moderates or pragmatic members to have a house or senate majority, sorry.

That being said, this race was always  going to be competitive. Bayh has not won an election since 2004 and has been out of office since 2011.

There's a difference between a moderate and a moderate hero.

A moderate has legitimate middle-of-the-aisle political beliefs, i.e. Colin Peterson or Ileana Rod-Lehtinen.

A Moderate Hero will roadblock and water down every piece of legislation his party produces, just for the sake of telling voters that he stands up to leadership and not get certain interest groups after them i.e. Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, ect.

Oh.. Gotcha.

You explained it to me better then anyone else could have.

I feel like I have legitimately moderate views, but I dislike it when people try to go directly in the middle of two proposals. For instance.. if one person recommends a 10.00 per hour minimum wage and the other recommends a 15.00 per hour minimum wage and then someone proposes a "12.50" per hour minimum wage, I do not like that. There is no logic except by the fact that it is in the middle.

But that was all off topic.

I think Bayh can still win and for Senate Majority it is a huge plus!

[Kingpoleon]

How scandalous. Did you know Todd Young used taxpayer money to go to college?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Non-story. People expense stupid stuff all the time. If the auditors approve it, that's their problem. Bayh is a great man, and he will be the next Senator from Indiana. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The problem with Bayh is illustrative of the fact that being moderate doesn't always imply he is being moderate for you the voter as opposed to him and his brand instead.

For instance, as Bill Maher pointed out. He held up Obamacare for a while not because of any number of concerns with plan, or desire for something better, but because he objected to a tax that impacted the top 1/10ths of 1%. It makes for great narrative making, "I got a tax hike removed from Obamacare", but it doesn't lend itself well to endearing oneself to anyone be it Democrats who have fought for decades for healthcare and couldn't care less about the rich having pay more to fund it or Conservatives who oppose the mandate and so forth. Also it doesn't appeal to the number of working and middle class moderates be they Republican or Democrat, who even as Republicans answer polls saying they want higher taxes on the rich.

This is the type of 1990's style thinking by Democrats, that just doesn't play well with anyone anymore and the great lesson here is as I said months ago. Bayh has not won election since 2004, times have changed and Bayh is out of step with the new reality.

[Phony Moderate]

The problem with Bayh is illustrative of the fact that being moderate doesn't always imply he is being moderate for you the voter as opposed to him and his brand instead.

Let's be honest, very few people go around describing themselves as extremist.