A reader proposes:
Maybe your logic about a unity ticket is right, but you are thinking of the wrong person: If Obama wants a unity ticket without any of the baggage, he picks Bayh. Her national co-chair. Senator from the Midwest with foreign policy credentials and executive experience. From a red state. New generation, just like Obama. Well-respected, good-looking, twin sons, no skeletons. White voters like him. Downsides: Dems might lose the Senate seat, and Bayh would have trouble with the “attack dog” role. But if a unity ticket is what Dems want, without the Clinton baggage, he’s the most obvious choice. The chattering class will know what it means.