“It’s been just over a week and a half since Joe Biden announced he was running for president and already the pundits are tossing around terms like electability. Some are comparing his campaign to another highly electable candidate, Hillary Clinton. Biden, they say, suffers from the same set of problems that doomed her candidacy. Both have been around forever; both are establishment Democrats at a time when the party is not only drifting to the left but looking for new blood; and both have checkered pasts that are problematic in a general election.”
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It’s Bidens Nomination To Lose.
“But overall, Biden has, in my opinion, the best chance of making Trump a one-term president. He’s not too far to the left that centrist Democrats and even some moderate Republicans (yes, they’re out there and they’re looking for an excuse not to vote for Trump) won’t find him attractive. And he’s liberal enough so that he can get at least a plurality of primary votes. In this very crowded field, if Biden continues to poll around 30 percent, he’ll win the nomination. Like I said earlier, only Bernie can compete with him.”
The Safe Choice?
It’s Time for Joe Biden To Shit or Get Off the Pot
At this point, there’s no way of telling whether Joe Biden, had he decided to run in 2016, would’ve won the Democratic nomination. Based on a piece I wrote in September of 2015, I had my doubts. My fear back then was that he would’ve siphoned off votes from the then presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, all but […]
Biden Drops Clues About 2020 At Lake Michigan College
When former Vice President Joe Biden took to the stage last night at the Mendel Center on the campus of Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan to the strains of Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising, it was a quintessential Joe moment. Nothing is more progressively American than the Boss. It fits the soulful, searching, scrappy […]