Democrats are awfully concerned about little known cafe owner Tamyra d’Ippolito sneaking on to the ballot as the official Democratic senatorial candidate in Indiana. Obviously, they’d much prefer the White House handpick Evan Bayh’s successor. In any event, they were so scared of d’Ippolito getting any publicity to help collect the signatures she needs to get on the ballot today that d’Ippolito claims they resorted to arm twisting:

I just got off the phone with Ms. d’Ippolito, and I can report that it would be pretty bad indeed for Dems if she pulls this off. She alleged in the interview that the “machine” in Indiana is out to get her — and even claimed that the machine had conspired with MSNBC to silence her.