Bayh Working To Raise Political Profile.

[Tafiti]

WASHINGTON -- Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is making staff and fund-raising changes that some interpret as laying the groundwork for a potential presidential bid.

The most noticeable changes are to his political action committee, a fund-raising tool often used by presidential hopefuls to help fund campaign explorations.

Bayh's PAC has a new name -- the All America PAC -- and its first director, Steve Bouchard, who has worked for previous presidential candidates in New Hampshire, the site of the first primary.

Bayh met with potential donors in California and Chicago last month and his PAC paid for him to travel to Colorado over the weekend where he was the keynote speaker for the Colorado Democratic Party's annual fund-raiser.

"A pre-presidential campaign is a thousand-piece puzzle and, gradually, he's filling in the pieces," said Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia. "You need to have a PAC. You need to raise money. You need to have staffers with national presidential experience."

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[lojasmo]

1. Evanmentum anybody? Gak! EOM

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Evan Bayh is absolutely unqualified to be my President.

His collusion with these traitors is why. :puke:

[WI_DEM]

3. I think he will be a real dark horse in '08

and potentially could do well especially in the midwest and south. Not an endorsement on my part, but a hunch.

[Padraig18]

4. He's well-positioned to do well in both areas. n/t