Evan Bayh used taxpayer cash for hotel stays

[socaldem]

I still hope Bayh wins...

But I think Young will.

I don't think Dems should be too sad about that prospect, though, because a close Young loss would leave him as the challenger-in-waiting in '18. And if Young were to run against Joe Donnelly in '18, I think he'd be a clear favorite.

Donnelly's only hope is to have a super-fractured GOP primary and to have a #TeamTrump tea partier emerge from a bruising primary.

If Young is waiting in the wings, the seat will be a goner.

[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.

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

Obviously, but the point is are you going to make a compromise that is a beneficial to a significant chunk of people, or obstruct something over a minor tax provision that most wouldn't care about at all to please a few donors and get a headline about Bayh standing up to tax hikes. It is a stunt right out of 1999. That is the difference between a moderate statesmen and an exercise in moderate political branding.