Bayh's numbers in Indiana look great...

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Top Bayh winning strategy: The states Gore officially won + Indiana
A weird strategy: IN + OH + Kerry states - NH - OR (all the remaining non-great lakes states were won by Kerry by at least 6.68 points).

For this 2nd strategy, Bayh would want a running mate who would do well in the great lakes by him/her self. .

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I'm about 80% certain that Bayh would win Indiana in the general.

i seriously doubt it -if Mark Warner is unlikely to carry his own state if he is the Democratic presidential nominee, how much more likely would Evan Bayh carry his? 

Bayh just got 62% of the vote.

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I'd like Feingold/Bayh, that's a winner

The only thing is 2 Senators might be seen as a liability. Some non-Senators possibilities for VP to consider are Warner, Richardson, Spitzer, and Schweitzer.

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I'd like Feingold/Bayh, that's a winner

I dont see Bayh taking the backseat to anyone.  To be honest I really dont see Feingold taking the back seat to anyone.  I dont understand why any U.S. Senator would want the VP slot.  At best you have an outside chance of being President 8 years down the road.  Why risk losing your perks in the Senate for that?

If you're a Senator you're up only a third of Presidential elections, so you're not giving anything up by running the other2 out of 3 times.

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If Bayh truly did appeal to populist-type people who mostly vote Republican now, do you think Bayh could do as well as Dukakis did in rural counties? Dukakis won one eastern county, I think. He won 3.5 counties in Eastern Washington.

Weirdly, he ran much worse in New England than any Democrat since, despite that he was from there.