It’s been an awkward and difficult sell for Bayh — who made millions lobbying and listed a Washington, DC mansion as his residence for years — to convince Hoosiers he’s still one of them.
It isn’t going well.
NPR had the latest bit of bad news for Bayh this morning:
“When the main political attack against you is that you left Indiana for Washington, there are certain mistakes you don’t want to make—like getting your Indiana home address wrong.”
Yikes.
NPR’s Ailsa Chang went to Bayh’s pretend ‘Indiana address’—you know, the one he couldn’t remember—to see if anyone had ever seen him around.
No one had.
“I have never seen him, no.”
Chang did speak to one Evansville man who summed up the view of a growing number of Hoosiers. He felt Bayh had changed after leaving Indiana. He went to DC “just to make money” he said. “He’s just not one of us,” he said, “I think he lost touch with the people of Indiana.”
Ouch.
Bailout Bayh can’t remember where he ‘lives.’
No one’s seen him.
Hoosiers don’t trust him.
Maybe it’s time for Bayh to switch races and run for the Washington, DC City Council instead.