Sen. Evan Bayh (D., Ind.) is having a good day: Rep. Mike Pence (R., Ind.) won’t be challenging his re-election this fall. Josh Marshall says Democrats are “dodging a bullet.”

The highest profile challenger Bayh now has is former Rep. John Hostettler, who lost his seat in 2006. Hostettler had several close races in that conservative district — it went for McCain in 2008 — partly because of his squeamishness about fundraising. Hostettler, one of the few House Republicans to oppose the Iraq war, is the author of Nothing for the Nation: Who Got What Out of Iraq, which purports to explain the true motivations behind the war.