Election '08 update: Brownback, Allen, Bayh

More from my earlier post about those who are possible preisdential contenders in 2008.

Also, check out Oval Office 2008, which gives a rundown of the Oval Office seekers. Honestly, there aren't any names mentioned that I have not already listed (which makes me feel pretty good), but there is a ton of information and commentary. OK, the site does mention Sen. Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, a complete and utter longshot, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the Clinton impeachment managers when he was in the House and who now is looking like a Southern moderate. He's probably a longshot, too, especially with the star power and charisma of some fellow Republican candidates like Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and George Allen (see below).

CNN is reporting that Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas has made a trip to South Carolina as part of the groundwork-laying stage of a presidential campaign. South Carolina is the site of the first Southern presidential primary. It's also where George W. Bush decimated John McCain in 2000 usng despicable push-polling tactics. Brownback came to the U.S. Senate to completethe unexpired term of Bob Dole, who retired to run for president.
Brownback's Senate Web site
Brownback's campaign Web site -- still says U.S. Senate, but I imagine there will be one for president soon enough

Other presidential tidbits:
The Washington Post and columnists have reported that an attractive candidate is Sen. George Allen of Virginia. He is an attractive candidate with football roots, whose conservative catch phrases are well received in the "Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire. So, Virginia could be a battleground -- a contrast of traditional Southern values with the high-tech and increasingly urban values of suburban Fairfax and Arlington counties.

My money still sits on the spot of Sen. Evan Bayh. Really, he is worth checking out. My goodness, a moderate Democrat from the reddest part of the Midwest who even looks like a presidential candidate with his pretty wife and twin boys (not that it matters). The son of U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh, he was Indiana's secretary of state for two years and a two-term governor, elected at age 33.
Bayh's Senate Web site
Bayh's campaign Web site
Americans for Bayh, an unofficial presidential campaign Web site.
Bloggers for Bayh, self-explanatory
The Democrat Leadership Council, which Bayh chaired until recently

I am not a New Democrat -- I am a good ol' liberal Democrat -- but I like Bayh's odds and what he stands for. Honestly, if Bill Richardson gets in, I might have a tough choice.

-- Wenatchee, Wash.