Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), who yesterday announced that he won’t seek a third term in the Senate, made the TV rounds this morning, talking about the “brain-dead partisanship” in Congress and trying to put to bed rumors that he plans to run for president in 2012.Bayh explained on Good Morning America that he’s leaving the Senate because of the “strident ideology” that has deadlocked Congress. “The extremes of both parties,” he said, “have to be willing to accept compromises.”
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