HILARY GETS A BAYH
U.S. Senator Evan Bayh is expected to endorse Hilary Clinton for President later today. Apart from political junkies like myself, endorsements really don’t mean anything. Indiana hasn’t gone Democratic since 1964 so Bayh wouldn’t bring anything to the table. Just because most Hoosiers like Bayh, that affection doesn’t translate into coattails.
And if Clinton was going to pick a Vice-President, it makes more sense to choose someone like Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico. He’s from the West, which is trending more Democratic, he’s also a Governor and was also a former Ambassador to the United Nations and Secretary of Energy. He’s also Hispanic which doesn’t hurt either.
So you might say Bayh’s endorsement is like a nice endpiece on a coffee table. It may look nice, but really doesn’t do much in the grand scheme of things.
