On May 15, as expected, the Indiana Democratic Central Committee chose Brad Ellsworth as its nominee for U.S. Senate this year. See this story.
No one appeared on the Indiana Democratic Party primary ballot for U.S. Senate this year, and Indiana does not permit write-ins in primaries. The incumbent, Senator Evan Bayh, had surprised his party and his state when he announced one day before the petition was due that he would not run for re-election. Because virtually no one had expected this action, no one else had collected the needed 4,500 valid signature to be on the primary ballot. Indiana lets qualified major parties find a new nominee when no one was nominated at its primary.
One more EVIL party hack machination by the EVIL Bayh.
Quit at the last minute to subvert Democracy and have the party hacks pick a party hack candidate.
There was one person (a woman, I believe) who was going to run against Bayh but did not get the signatures in time. It would have been really interesting if she had….