A win in Indiana tonight wouldn’t just help Hillary Clinton. It might boost the vice presidential hopes of one of her chief surrogates, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh.
Like Virginia’s Tim Kaine, an early backer of Barack Obama, Bayh made up his mind quickly. He endorsed Clinton in early 2007, after briefly entertaining his own run for president.
Bayh has made plenty of campaign appearances and television appearances for Clinton, as Kaine has for Obama. As a result, both show up on pundits’ short lists of potential running mates—Bayh for Clinton and Kaine for Obama.
The boyish Bayh can tout his two terms in the U.S. Senate, his two terms as Indiana’s governor and his stint as head of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.
But his vice presidential prospects face the same big question as Kaine’s—whether he could bring home his state’s electoral votes. No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Indiana or Virginia since 1964.
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