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Pronounced. whether or not there are additional reasons, well find out at 2:00. but this was a democrat who was finding it difficult to fit with his party on capitol hill in recent weeks. his departure is going to be a body blow for democratic leaders in washington. theyve surely been told this was coming in the last 24 hours, clearly they werent prepared to talk about it themselves on presidents day. this is a stunner for democrats and a sign that theres trouble, particularly because evan byer ...

Frontrunner? >> he had been the senator from indiana before so this is him returning to the field and there was a suggestion that his immediate suck of -- success and name recognition and unpopularity of the democratic agenda made him a real viable contender. theres a dispute over polls. most of the polls have shown that evan bayh, the incumbent, was fairly well ahead and in fact some of the internal polls in the byer reelection campaign such as it was said that they saw -- they saw themselves d...

Being sold a bill of goods and they want it to stop and thats why you see independents going 62 percent in virginia, to the republicans. 62 percent. in new jersey, to the republicans. and 69 percent in massachusetts to the republicans. i think indiana is more than up for grabs, the filing deadline is this friday, thats going to hurt the democrats severely. jon: lets take a look at one of the quotes that is attributed to the now retiring senator bye this morning, he -- bayh this morning, he says ...

Of place to run from when youre running for your partys nomination. thats why sarah palin is the leading republican, and incidentally, like palin, its not a very good thing to abandon a real job to be a senator, and especially when your party needs you, and then say no, i want to run for something higher. thats why i think palin is going to have huge problems, just having walked out all together, and i think evan bayh is going to have some complaining -- explain tog do if thats what he wants. i ...

Yet consumer confidence substantially up at the same time, scott? >> well, its because a year ago at this time consumer confidence was the lowest its been in decades. the numbers you cite arent very encouraging, but theyre not nearly as pessimistic as we saw last year. at this time one year ago, only 10% thought the economy was getting better, 70% thought it was getting worse. and the real issue here is that while people are a little less pessimistic about the economy overall, theyre not seeing ...

Commission say they were specifically tailored, created, and theyve even been updated for these terror suspects to handle these specific situations, and not using them is irresponsible. here is what senator lindsey graham told me about whos to blame for not using them. >> all of these cases were ready to go, the obama administration stopped the trials, dismissed the charges. the reason they havent gone to court is because of the obama administration, not because of the supreme court. >> reporter...

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