BAYH BAILS

So Evan Bayh has decided he's "just not the right David" to take on the supposed Goliaths in the race for the Presidency. Apparently, membership in 160 facebook groups just isn't enough to build the networks of support to win a presidential campaign. Either that, or Bayh got out of the running for fear his campaign would face a steady drumbeat of questions about his facebook membership in both the "Moderate Democrats Caucus" and the "Liberal News" group, or about his supposed simultaneous membership in the College Democrats of Arkansas, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Montana, North Carolina, South Caraolina, Massachusetts, Oregon State, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Ohio, Minnesota, Hamilton County Indiana, New York, Oregon, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana U, Maryland, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Vermont, California, Tennessee, and "Worchester and Central Massachusetts" (where he's 25% of the membership). Or maybe it was his claimed affiliation with the Party's Hispanic Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus, "Young Democrats" chapters across the country, and the North Carolina Association of Teen Democrats that was destined to raise eyebrows under the microscope of a Presidential campaign. Thus the race loses the only candidate who could say he was opposed to the Facebook News Feed from the beginning.

And, on a more serious note, we see another nail in the coffin of the scenario where the primary is dominated by Clinton and someone running well to her right (sorry, Joe Biden).