[Verginius Rufus]

Evan is not much of a name change considering some of the other recent examples--Hart (Hartpence), Clinton (really Blythe, whether or not his putative father was his biological father), Ford (really King), Willard calling himself Mitt, etc.

There was a post some time back on FR about Bayh's father and a really sordid scandal he was supposedly involved in (I think a woman ended up dead). Of course that doesn't matter in the case of a Democrat...Teddy Kennedy is one of the party's most eminent leaders.

[Theodore R.]

As I vaguely recall, it was that the senior Bayh’s wife died of breast cancer before that was so commonly discussed, People in IN will do anything for a Bayh after having defeated the Senior Bayh in 1980 in favor of D. Quayle.