Had to look up BAMF. Joe is what Joe is. He's comic relief, a good sport, and a party loyalist. But not Presidential.
If Biden decides to run (I'm not sure he won't), he will give Hillary a run for her money, and might win. A lot of the voters who now plan to hold their noses and vote Hil might defect to the Biden camp.
Side question: What does Obama do if Hilary and Biden both run? I assume that if only one of those two run, he supports that one. But both? Hmmm.
Biden's waaay more Presidential than two-termer Dubya ever was, and a bit more than Cheney was. There's a balance between Reagan's pseudo-royalty schtick and Carter's common man personality, and I think Biden can fit that.
He will support Biden. He's already chipped in to pay off Hil's campaign debt and given her a job after she tried to smear him.
Biden should be named VPOTUS for life. Has there ever been a more perfect marriage of a man with a job?
@American Brummie Have you seen these polls? what is your take on them? 2016 Presidential http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institute...titute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1959 2014 Midterms http://front.moveon.org/24-moveon-polls-show-gop-could-lose-house-in-wake-of-shutdown/#.UlS9lRbNO5e
Two things: 1) 2016 is a long time away. 2) PPP is nice in that it releases its questions and question ordering, but we still don't know their sampling techniques so they could be looking for voters rather than randomly sampling. Also, with a year out from the election PPP could be way off and attribute it to something other than inaccuracy/bad polling practices. Third, if I were a Congressman I'd hate going up against "Generic Other Guy" because I could never attack him/her or draw a contrast; generic candidates usually resemble the voters' Ronald Reagan/Jed Bartlet politico-masturbatory fantasies rather than human beings. That being said, if I were the GOP and I were reading these poll numbers, I'd be doing everything I could in those states to increase Republican turnout and decrease Democratic turnout and fast, too.
3) Bill Young announced his retirement today, and just before the government shutdown Spencer Bachus also said he would. Young comes from a district Obama won while Bachus comes from a ruby-red district. Of the five Democrats leaving the House, none are retiring and only two (IA-1, ME-2) are competitive (+10 in the Cook's PVI. Of the nine Republican districts being vacated, four are retirements and four are competitive (CA-45, FL-13, MN-6, WV-2). Watch the announcements of retirees during this government shutdown fight. If this 4:1 ratio of retirees from each party maintains and we see total retirements (for other office or just quitting politics) hit 35, what they were before, this means that the Democrats in office believe they will recapture the chamber and want some sweet committee spots. If retirements even out, then the chamber is likely to remain Republican.
Why Elizabeth Warren Should Scare Hillary Clinton "In addition to being strongly identified with the party’s populist wing, any candidate who challenged Clinton would need several key assets. The candidate would almost certainly have to be a woman, given Democrats’ desire to make history again. She would have to amass huge piles of money with relatively little effort. Above all, she would have to awaken in Democratic voters an almost evangelical passion. As it happens, there is precisely such a person. Her name is Elizabeth Warren." I quite like Warren. I don't think this will happen, in part because I think Warren respects Clinton too much and in part because I think this story's promulgation is part of the right's attempt to throw anything and everything on the tracks in front of the Clinton '16 Express. But six months before his nomination, I also thought Obama would never happen. Clinton lost to Obama in part (IMveryHO) because she is such an established part of the machine, and Obama represented real hope. And I think that same dynamic holds true with Warren. Benghazi is going to explode over and over and over again between now and the nomination, and it may become the deciding 'electable' factor in the primaries. Again, I doubt it, but who knows. And it would be a personal tragedy of Greek proportions to see Clinton -- who was poised to be written into history in a landmark election, only to be out-landmarked by Obama; who so desperately wanted the White House in '08, then seemed resigned to never getting there, only to be drawn back in by popular demand -- lose the nomination again and see someone else become the first woman president. Amy Poehler's impersonation of Hillary seems so perfect right now...
Obama beat Hilary because of his Iraq vote, well that is what kept hig going before the grass roots and the money took over.
I don't know, the very liberal Di Blasio got elected NYC mayor, Seattle elected someone from the Socialist Party to its city council. There's definitely a move to the left. Warren may be able to pull it off. Oh, and that clip is an all-time SNL classic.
Hillary very far out in front... http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ss...win_the_2016_gop_presidential_nomination.html
Sen. Warren says she won't run for president in 2016 "I'm not running for president, and I plan to serve out my term," Warren said in quotes that were first reported by The Boston Herald and Boston Globe. Warren's Senate office confirmed her comments.
Dems usually never have uncontested primaries especially when it's an open seat. But I see Hillary like a semi incumbent so she will be like Gore in 2000 face token primary opposition nothing major.
anyone want to run for Mayor of Charlotte??? http://news.yahoo.com/charlotte-nc-mayor-facing-corruption-charges-180040130.html
For your consideration -- Governor Jerry Brown http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...3d0e0c-e5cc-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html Mellow out or you will pay.
Vlad Putin doesn't think that Hillary is fit for the job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-hillary-never-too-graceful-200922996.html