A Look at 2010, Cont'd.

More information and speculation on some of the 2010 races (following up on this post).

Aaron Hankins for Congress, it seems, was so 2008. His twin brother, Travis, will be running this time. There's even a website and--according to one commenter at Hoosier Access--a mailing (which is interesting because I don't see a committee filing online at the FEC website, and such an obvious campaign expenditure would have to come from a committee). The mailing should make for interesting reading; I've asked the commenter if they can scan it and email it to me.

Color me cynical, but I'm satisfied with Mike Pence being the Congressman from the 6th District. I don't want a younger carbon copy of him running from the 9th, and I find the constant references to Pence on the Hankins website to be rather unusual.

Mike Sodrel had some help from Mike Pence's team in 2008. I'd just as soon not have the help expand to include the candidate too.

I had some emails also about the possibility of Kent Benson running. Several suggested he would never run again after his interesting experience in the secretary of state race a few years back. Others seemed hopeful that he would never run again. I've never heard from Benson himself that he would be interested in running, only from a few others who hoped that he would (individuals who probably weren't familiar with the inside baseball of his SOS run).

On the Bayh front, there seems to be speculation that Todd Rokita (also from northwestern Indiana) might be interested (along with earlier-mentioned Dan Dumezich) in running against Birch III.