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Biden pick is a dud for Obama - GALLUP Daily
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-08-27 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate.

Could that be because Biden is a dickweed?
Nah, prolly just hasn't had time to digest yet.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-27 11:29||   2008-08-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 No surprise here. Biden never got any traction when he tried to run for president. Outside Delaware he's not very popular and not well known. There are two likely explanations: 1) He's not Hilary. 2) Obama thinks Biden will help him carry Pennsylvania because he was born in Scranton.

We'll just have to see if McCain can do any better.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-08-27 11:58||   2008-08-27 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I read in the MSM where Ted Kennedy "electrified" the convention.
Posted by john frum 2008-08-27 12:01||   2008-08-27 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Biden is a grade A asshole and the more he shows up and opens his fat, stupid trap the more people will be put off by him. Combine that with Obama's complete lack of being able to articulate anything without a teleprompter, and the dhimocrat's campaign will come crashing down.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-27 12:11||   2008-08-27 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 When is that first debate? I want to block out my calendar.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-08-27 12:56||   2008-08-27 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 John Edwards has been dropped from the convention because he lied about his adultery.

In his place Bill Clinton will speak.

YJCMTU.
Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5***  2008-08-27 13:42||   2008-08-27 13:42|| Front Page Top

#7 I still wonder how much of the Obama numbers are "Bradley effect". Even 2-3% is enough to completely swing the race in the key swing states.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-27 13:44||   2008-08-27 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Skunky, what's with the 5***? Somebody trying to steal your identity?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-27 13:51||   2008-08-27 13:51|| Front Page Top

#9 If Obama is worried about Pennsylvania then he's in big trouble. PA is generally Dhimmicratic in a presidential election -- GWB won it neither time. Polls show Obama with a 3 to 5 point lead there today.


I suspect Obama took Biden because 1) Bayh didn't want the job 2) Biden is safely liberal enough for most of the nut-roots 3) he's not Hillary and 4) gullible newspaper columnists think Biden has chops in foreign policy.
Posted by Steve White  2008-08-27 13:53||   2008-08-27 13:53|| Front Page Top

#10 He's gonna play the blue collar, beer swiggin', in-your-face Mr.-Fancypants-Guy-in-a-Suit ordinary Joe.

Plus the unions own him.
Posted by lotp 2008-08-27 15:06||   2008-08-27 15:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Is that going to work with all your bitter Bible clinging, gun loving, xenophobic relatives?

I suspect Biden is equally intended to put the Philly suburbs over the top for The Obamessiah. I never thought I would see Delaware and Chester counties go donk.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-27 15:15||   2008-08-27 15:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Obama got not bump from Biden because Obama is so polarizing already that most people have made up their mind. ONly a HIllary choice would have been reflected in the polls.

Now McCain is another story. A good (or bad) pick could really send the polls bouncing.
Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-27 16:14||   2008-08-27 16:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Choosing Joe Biden has to be the dumbest move any Presidential candidate has EVER made. Joe has never pulled more than three or four percent of the Democratic vote in any of the many times he's run for President. Who in their right mind would believe that people would find him more acceptable in the number two slot? Obama must have been turned down by a LOT of people, which is an indication of their opinion of his chances.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2008-08-27 22:11|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2008-08-27 22:11|| Front Page Top

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