Sorry, but I don't believe Barack Obama is seriously considering Evan Bayh for VP. Bayh has one huge strike against him: Indiana has a Republican governor, who would pick his replacement should Obama win. Obama is putting a lot of effort into making sure he has a strong congressional majority, and he's not going to throw away a badly needed vote in the Senate.

I suspect this has more to do with placating Hillary backers who haven't come around to full support Obama yet. If Obama does pick Bayh, that tells me there is a whole lot of internal warfare going on in the party that we don't know about. Having Bayh on the ticket means that a bunch of Hillary people will be getting jobs in the new administration. It speaks to the core corruption in both parties that the VP selection comes down to securing jobs for cronies, even at the cost of pushing through the party's platform.