... for the Senate when he was rumored to try to get a last minute placement on the ballot, but was not allowed a chance to be in a Democratic primary when DLCer Evan Bayh timed his retirement so that the party (who were also DLCers at the time) had to select a replacement for him on the ballot instead of opening it up to the Indiana voter who might have picked Mellencamp then. The party wisdom in who they picked to run was surely forgettable now wasn't it? Maybe this time around, they'll let a more popular choice be a candidate.