president though with mr. obama in the latest cnn poll says 52% say he doesn t deserve reelection. evan may need to rethink that one a little bit. now for democrats they didn t have anybody go on the ballot there was a woman tamyra d ippolito who said 6:00 this morning she had the 4500 petitions to get on the ballot. she didn t. she only had 112. no one is on the democratic ballot. that means they will be able to have a no, ma am nalgt nominating convention sometime in june. there are probably three mayor s who are lickly to run for the democratic nod. that s how they answer it, shep. shepard: what is the sense of what that means for their chances of hanging on to that seat. it weakens it indiana is a very republican seat. mr. obama was the first to win it for president since lyndon johnson. for bayh it 12 years ago he took a temporary retirement. dan coats was the republican incumbent back then. is he now on the ballot. he did get the 4500 necessary signatures. that means he is on
bret: democratic senator evan bayh from indiana one day after announcing he will not seek reelection in 2010, talking about his decision-making process. in the meantime democrats were scram scrambling this little known democrat from bloomington, indiana tamyra d ippolito, she needed 4500 signatures to get on the primary ballot. she said she had them. she said she had all the signatures, 500 in each indiana district. turns out at last count, before this show, she had 112. so, it will not be anyone on that ballot. and the democrats in indiana will pick in a convention in june the nominee. we re back with the panel. a.b., it was an interesting political development there what about the democrats scrambling in indiana? well, obviously the announcement by senator bayh was a real shocker. timing of it, democrats in indiana feel burned by the fact that he did it right before the primary filing date. they felt that was selfish. he has been feeling he has been
bret: democratic senator evan bayh from indiana one day after announcing he will not seek reelection in 2010, talking about his decision-making process. in the meantime democrats were scram scrambling this little known democrat from bloomington, indiana tamyra d ippolito, she needed 4500 signatures to get on the primary ballot. she said she had them. she said she had all the signatures, 500 in each indiana district. turns out at last count, before this show, she had 112. so, it will not be anyone on that ballot. and the democrats in indiana will pick in a convention in june the nominee. we re back with the panel. a.b., it was an interesting political development there what about the democrats scrambling in indiana? well, obviously the announcement by senator bayh was a real shocker. timing of it, democrats in indiana feel burned by the fact that he did it right before the primary filing date. they felt that was selfish.
it, shep. suffice it to say in indiana they are watching very closely and wondering if he is not going away or if he is coming back. shepard: the timing for democrats is awful. the deadline for filing to run for this seat is the end of this week. and you have to get all the signatures together and a lot of people around the country are wondering who would the democrats look to as a possible replacement candidate? yeah. and because this came so late with senator bayh s announcement, it almost makes it impossible for two of the more likely contenders to actually get the necessary 4500 ballots petitions to get on the ballot. brad else worth and barron hill are both socially moderate, fiscally moderate democrats in the southern part of indiana who many say would make great can candidates. there is no way they can get the necessary petitions by tomorrow. now enter tamyra d ippolito. she run as cafe in bloomington. she wanted to get on the ballot and run against evan bayh. so far she h