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 == United States Senate election in Indiana, 2012 == 

  Why? WHY is a declined section necessary? Is the reader too stupid to assume that anyone not listed as running simply isn't running? If they said they'd run but then dropped out, they could be listed, but these people were NEVER involved in this race. So they may be prominant Indiana politicians, but they have nothing to do with this election. What about Evan Bayh, Mike Pence (could have run, but is instead running for governor), John Gregg, (could have run, but is instead running for governor), Gov. Mitch Daniels, every Congressman, every Indiana state senator and representative who could have run? They are simply not relevant to this race. The fact that they responsed No to a reporter's question - or simply said abosolutely nothing about it or decided to run for another office -  doesn't mean they need to included here. I especially have a problem with the inclusion of Jackie Walorski. She ran for Congress last year and lost. Guess what? She's running for the same seat again, never having considered runnng for Senate against a powerful incumbent, nor did anyone else actually think she would. And the source for Baron Hill says that he wouldn't run for Governor, not Senate. Really, it's only common sense that if they aren't running or still thinking about it, then they aren't running, just like the other couple hundred Hoosier politicians and millions of Hoosiers! There is absolutely no reason to include them unless there was extensive asumptions that they would run, or they were really getting into it but later declined. You may claim that politicians are fickle and can change their minds: other than the fact that it's absurdly unlikely at this point, we can just add them back at any time!  "