Is Bayh too conservative for the dems in '08?

[opebo]

Bayh's problem is the feminist lobby hates his guts and will not stand for his nomination.  Gore wanted him as his VP in 2000 and the feminists basically told him, "No."  He listened.

He certainly isn't too conservative; that's not the issue here.  The problem is what I stated above.

Why don't they like him?  Is he anti-abortion?

If so - no thanks.

[opebo]

Bayh's problem is the feminist lobby hates his guts and will not stand for his nomination.  Gore wanted him as his VP in 2000 and the feminists basically told him, "No."  He listened.

He certainly isn't too conservative; that's not the issue here.  The problem is what I stated above.

Why don't they like him?  Is he anti-abortion?

If so - no thanks.

He's a centrist on abortion.

What does that mean?   There are pretty much only the two positions.

[opebo]

Bayh would certainly carry Indiana because in America, we still do elect people and not parties.

Actually this is only partially true - it is the case in some states but not all.  Indiana is a good example of a state that could vote for a personality - for example a DINO - in spite of being a very strong GOP state. 

However the South will no longer vote for a Democrat for president due to religion and racism - the Democrats are perceived as favoring the blacks and and not obeying christian rule.  Conversely, the Northeast will not vote GOP, regardless of the individual running for fear of further empowering the religious fanatics.

In order to break this tendency - the party based power-grab on the part of the South and countervailing voting-for-personal-freedoms tendency of the Coasts - would require an extremely conservative Democrat running against an extremely liberal Republican - say Zell Miller running against Lincoln Chaffee - and nothing like that would ever get through the primaries.

No, the only states that still vote on 'personality' are a few in the Midwest.