Why is Bayh quitting the Senate? The domino effect

John Fund writes at the Wall Street Journal (paid subscription only): “Before Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh suddenly announced he will not seek re-election in November he had issued several warnings to fellow Democrats. Last month, for example, he told Gerald Seib of this newspaper that his party’s liberals were “tone deaf” to the fact that they’d ‘overreached’ in their agenda. ‘For those people,’ he said, ‘it may take a political catastrophe of biblical proportions before they get it.’”

Fund also has this post: Senator Bayh’s Domino Effect
“Political handicappers Larry Sabato and Nate Silver both projected recently that if the November election were held today, Democrats would wind up with only 52 Senate seats, a net loss of seven.”