From the AP:
Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat who was on Barack Obama's short list of vice presidential candidate prospects in 2008, announced Monday that he won't seek a third term in Congress, giving Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat in the November elections.
The departure of Bayh continues a recent exodus from Congress among both Democrats and Republicans, including veteran Democrats Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island....
His retirement from a Senate seat from Republican-leaning Indiana also adds to the struggle Democrats will face this fall to prevent an erosion of the 59 votes they have in the 100-seat chamber. It follows Republican Scott Brown's stunning January upset to take Edward Kennedy's former seat in Massachusetts, which ended the Democrats' 60-vote supermajority and imperiled the party's drive for sweeping health care reform, Obama's top domestic priority.
as the vultures gather, eyeing the November midterms...
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